> On Apr 27, 2014, at 11:33 AM, asllearner <gmane.99.ky...@spamgourmet.com> > wrote: > > I am using Lyx 2.0.7.1 on a Mac 10.6.8 > > I have a simple (less than 2 pages) document that has a few images. I > edited/cropped one image using an external editor (per right click menu). I > saved it over itself. > > Now, no matter what I do, it refuses to update the picture. The uncropped > version appears. > > In my lyxtmp folder, (which I set via the preferences to a folder in my > documents, since I seemed to be having a problem with the default not having > permissions...separate problem, but it is related, perhaps?) anyhoo, in the > lyx temp folder I can see a bunch of png and eps files. The png files match > the updated version. The eps remain like the uncropped original. I deleted > all the files, reran, and lo and behold, it came back (wrong) again. > > I believed that I had moved the temp folder, but I found a folder > /Users/---/Library/Application Support/LyX-2.0/cache that had a bunch of > files endingn in eps, but without extensions, but if i added eps to them, I > could se they were the eps files from my lyx document, and I could see the > bad eps there. I deleted it, reran, and lo and behold, still no good. > > I tried closing files, Lyx, and reconfiguring LyX. No go. > I tried reloading the picture. I tried deleting the picture, rerunning, then > inserting the picture again and other various combinations I could think of. > > IN THE END: I did manage to get it to work by copying the original file with > a new name, and rerunning. This seems however to be overkill, forces me to > go hunting in the finder for the file, and ruins the naming scheme I use to > make it easier to keep my images in order. At any rate, I don't believe this > is how it should work. Why is there no way to force it to update. > > Thanks... > >
I'm not sure if this is related to the problem, but if you are previewing in Acrobat Reader, you need to close the application every time you refresh the preview.
