On 9/20/20 1:43 PM, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
On 9/20/20 12:46 PM, [email protected] wrote:
BTW, on my Mac I have Lyx v. 2.3.1-1. My coauthor has 2.3.0!!!
Curious, isn´t it? A regression?
Again, it's just a guess, but I think this might have been a 'stale'
lockfile. It got left behind at some point so Dropbox is confused.
That's why the file seems like a 'normal' file somehow and you're
being asked if you want to delete it.
Riki
I agree with Riki. Also, I suspect this is a LyX on Windows (or LyX on
Dropbox on Windows) thing. I use Linux Mint on my devices, and I can
have the same file open (in a Dropbox folder) on two devices, make
changes on both devices, and never get a lock file. On the other hand, I
do some work with a coauthor who uses LyX on Windows. In one of our
shared Dropbox folders, I see a #TbPapers.lyx# file with a 2018
modification date. It's a file she created and maintained -- I don't
think I ever touched it -- so my guess is LyX created it during some
edit and never removed it. As best I can recall, I've only seen the
#...# stuff with LyX files.
As lock files go, they're a bit odd. Normally a lock file has zero bytes
(or maybe one or two). Its job is just to exist, signaling the real file
is in use. In the case of #TbPapers.lyx#, it's almost as large as the
actual TbPapers.lyx file. There's also a TbPapers.lyx~ file, and all
have the same file date. So the ~ file is the normal backup LyX creates
when a save is done.
I don't work with anyone using LyX on a Mac, so I have no idea if it
participates in this madness. :-)
Paul
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