Marc, the directory is set to: C:\Program Files\LyX 1.5.2\backup
(Recall that I created this folder to make it available and stop the error
messages on every save instance.)
Dave Hewitt wrote:
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.
That's what I get ... sometimes ... (I have timed backups deselected, but
apparently there are untimed backups triggered by alignment of the planets
or something). There are also #filename# copies that get dumped under
certain circumstances (less than graceful exit from LyX?), again in the
source directory.
Marc indicated that the files with tildes are the just-prior saved version
(an at-the-time-of-last-opening backup, if you will). So those aren't the
backups. But, like you Paul, I get the #...# files in the same directory as
I'm working in. I get those files regularly when LyX has a document open,
like a backup. So I'm confused about what those are (they're not going to
the 'backup' directory, if they are backups).
So you're saying you have timed backups set and, even with a valid backup
path and having the document open past the time limit, you're not getting
a backup file?
Correct. Could this have something to do with the odd path that was given
in the error message? LyX thought I wanted backups in 'backup' directory
(which didn't exist), but the error message says:
"Cannot create backup file: C:/Program Files/LyX 1.5.2/backup/C:!Documents
and Settings!dhewitt!Desktop!newfile1.lyx~. Please check..."
(It seems odd that this is an error for backup creation, and the file it
wants to make has a tilde on it, which I've been told is not a backup.)
/Paul
Dave Hewitt