If you don't want the backups, just uncheck the proper boxes in "Tools > Preferences > Look & Feel > User interface".
This way they won't annoy you anymore. :-) --- Diego Queiroz On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 8:24 PM, Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com>wrote: > On Sat, 19 Dec 2009, Joachim Osnabryg wrote: > > The files with the filename-extension ?.lyx~? which LyX creates each time >> you begin a new document are obviously the ?LyX backups? for which one may >> assign a special directory where they go. Otherwise they are saved in the >> same directory as the .lyx file itself. >> > > The tilde (~) is the standard symbol for a backup file in linux and other > unices. It has no other function. Keep or delete as you choose. > > Rich >
