On May 15, 2014 at 12:28:41 PM, Jürgen Spitzmüller (sp...@lyx.org) wrote:
2014-05-15 20:19 GMT+02:00 Steve Burnham: 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. First, of course, this bug needs to be fixed ASAP. But then, if you have the backup directory set up and you regularly hit save, you'll at least not lose _much_. Version control is of course a further option, but I am not sure RCS (which is described on that wiki page) could not be corrupted as well by this bug. Other version control options are described in Help > Additional Features, sec. 7.2. Jürgen I just realized as well, if the file becomes corrupted then revision control won’t do anything for me as I cannot get the file open to access it correct? I think what I will do then is just have that backup directory and save frequently like I have been. I don’t have any more trips planned before the thesis is due so I will also always be on the internet with my online backup service running.
