Dave Hewitt wrote:
Whenever I try to save LyX documents (File -> Save or Ctrl-S), I get
a Backup Failure notification (image attached). After I hit OK, the Save
option in the File menu is grayed out, indicating that the file has been
saved. When I reopen the file, it looks fine, so the file itself is
saving OK. Apparently LyX is (was, below) only having a problem accessing
the backup directory.
In Tools -> Preferences -> Paths, my backup directory is given as
C:\Program Files\LyX 1.5.2\backup, but no directory called 'backup' was
created with the installation. I created a new folder in that location
and named it 'backup', and (not surprisingly) everything now works fine.
I'm just curious as to whether this is the most appropriate solution?
Matter of taste, I guess. I don't rely on LyX for backups (I do that
outside LyX).
If so, why was there no 'backup' directory created in the first place
when LyX defaults to that path for backups?
A better question is why LyX had that path. My copy has the backup path
blank, but then it inherited settings from earlier versions rather than
being a first install.
Maybe since I left User Preferences intact when I updated to LyX 1.5.2,
there was a default to include that path in LyX 1.5.1 (the first version I
used).
And, no files of any type are appearing in this new backup directory
I created, so where are these backups going (i.e., what is the purpose of
this folder)?
Maybe there aren't any. Do you have Tools -> Preferences... -> Look and
feel -> User interface -> Backup documents turned on?
Yes, and I recall that files with little tildes at the end (backups,
presumably) appeared in the same directory as the file was located when I
was using LyX 1.5.1. There would almost always be a file with the same name
and an added tilde each place I had a LyX document.
Finally, are any of the other paths in the Preferences likely to be
affected in this way?
Don't have an answer to that one, but I suspect it's unlikely.
/Paul
Dave Hewitt
