On May 15, 2014 at 11:56:05 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller ([email protected]) wrote:
2014-05-15 18:24 GMT+02:00 Steve Burnham: I checked my backups directory and just my luck, there is no directory listed for backups. Ouch. I didn’t even know that was an option. I’m still learning LyX, but it only takes once to make sure there is a directory listed there. I opened up the .lyx file and there is no \end_body or \end_document anywhere in the file. The document ends with “\begin_inset Tabular”. So you were hit exactly by this nasty bug: http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/9049 We really need the fix this, but we are sort of stuck :-( Jürgen That’s what it looks like my problem is. Too bad it’s being difficult to replicate and isolate the problem. Should it happen again I will be sure to update. I can’t remember exactly what I was doing. It was something to do with chaining font styles and single/double spacing. The file really is corrupted then. Looking in the file, can you check whether it has the part that you worked on? It's possible that part was lost somehow. It’s actually missing a very significant amount, not just what I had most recently been working. Probably 2/3 of the document. It sounds like a bunch of strange things happened at once (no online backup and a LyX crash), but if you want to protect yourself from this in the future, you might want to consider revision control. It sounds like at this point I am probably just SOL. A minor annoyance though compared to what I was going through with MSWord and as I am getting better at using LyX, things go faster now. I am going to start using version control. I found this page about it (http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/VersionControl), unfortunately it is very vague. I have all the necessary packages to have it working on OSX. I noticed there are a bunch of options like “check in changes” “copy” “revert” and “compare”. Is there another document that might explain what these features are? I have it turned on but I really don’t have any idea how to work it properly. Particularly the check in and out changes options. -Steve
