humanengr wrote:
Thank you both. A follow-up:
I see the User Guide indicates the "~" files are "backup". What is the
relationship between those and the "emergency" and "#" files?
Backup (lyx~) files are the ones saved every N minutes by LyX, where N
is 5 by default. You can set the backup period in the preferences.
Emergency files are files saved in case of a crash. LyX will look at the
file dates and can propose you to load the emergency file (or the backup
file) instead, if they are more recent. If you load the emergency file,
as long as you don't save it above the old one, you have not lost
anything and if it's corrupted, you can then try the backup file or the
original file.
LyX does not touch your original file as long as you don't ask it to. I
had one crash in 2000 because the X server had crashed, the emergency
file had everything correct till the last key pressed before the crash.
I think I've had another crash since on Windows (probably an alpha or
beta of 1.6 IIRC), and I think then again, the emergency file was fine.
So in fact, backups are more like to go back to an old version (well,
undo can do that too). Or a second safety belt.
Best regards,
Olivier
At 8:54 AM +0200 6/29/09, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:
I usually rename the x.lyx.emergency
into eg
x1.lyx
and open it with lyx.
Wolfgang
At 2:56 AM -0400 6/29/09, Michael Joyner ?? wrote:
copy xxx.lyx~ to xxx2.lyx
