Do either of you have RCS installed and running on your systems?
http://www.gnu.org/software/rcs
This is the RCS system accessible via LyX under File->Version Control
The system doesn't have a GUI to work within. It's command line driven.
I'm using LyX on Debian Linux Sid and OS X 10.4.10
- Marc
On Oct 16, 2007, at 3:40 PM, Dave Hewitt wrote:
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
