Re: LyX png and eps

[Maria Gouskova]

I cannot say that I understand what LyX does with the preferences file exactly, because the installer appears to copy the preferences on its own during the installation process. But it isn't clear which preferences file it copies. After poking around my hard drive, I realized that I now have at least *three* LyX preferences files: one in Library/Application Support/LyX (original 1.3.7 file), one in / Library/Application Support/LyX-1.4 (contents identical to the first one, from what I can see), and in Applications/LyX.app/Contents/ Resources (different contents). The directory LyX-1.4 was installed by LyX 1.4.1, and the directory LyX (inside Lib/App Support) is leftover from LyX 1.3.7, apparently unchanged by the upgrade.

I am attaching all three files for your perusal.

Maria

Everything righted itself after I deleted the second file, Library/ Application Support/LyX-1.4.

preferences_1_4_1
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preferences_inside_lyx
Description: Binary data

preferences1_3_7
Description: Binary data

On May 8, 2006, at 11:57 AM, Stephen Harris wrote:

Maria Gouskova wrote:

Well, I am no pro at this, but it appears that ImageMagick was in fact installed on my machine, because deleting the preferences file (as per Bennett Helm's suggestion) fixed the problem. That was all I had to do. My guess is that the installer script somehow messed up in my case when it converted my 1.3.7 preferences/settings to 1.4.1. I had a couple of problems after conversion, including Instant Preview and this. My advice to anyone with the same setup (Mac OS 10.4.6, LyX 1.3 to 1.4 upgrade) is to reconfigure LyX and to delete the preferences file and reset preferences manually after upgrading. It won't hurt and it might fix a few things.

Maria

http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/MacInstall

* "If you had a ~/.lyx/preferences file from a previous installation
of another version of LyX, either delete it or make sure the entries
for viewers do not override the LyX/Mac defaults."

SH: For Windows one of the few advantages is that LyX1.3.7 and
LyX1.4.1 can co-exist without any problem that I know of. I'm
not sure how dual installations are worked out for Mac or Linux.
I suppose the old Pref file isn't deleted by default because there
may not be a backup file of modifications, key bindings or whatever.
I used to get my 137 tex2lyx improvement to relyx erased all the time.

Have a good day,
Stephen