2014-05-16 9:41 GMT+02:00 Jürgen Spitzmüller: > 2014-05-16 8:34 GMT+02:00 Wu, Yan: > > Today when I am writing with LyX. Suddenly the document crushed, with one >> message says: emergency stop...I could not tell exactly. >> >> Then the file closed but I could not open it again later. It is really a >> disaster for me if I lost the document. >> >> I write the email to ask any help I can get from you. Thank you very much >> in advance. Looking forward to your response. >> > > First, check if you have a backup in the backup directory set in Tools > > Preferences > Path. If so (hopefully), you will find a backup of the file > there. > > Next, open the LyX file with a text editor. If it ends with > > \begin_inset Tabular > > instead of > > \end_body > \end_document > > then you have probably faced this bug > > http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/9049 >
Just for the record: It turned out it was this bug, but fortunately, we managed to restore the file completely. Yan sent me the emergency files and backups (the one embraced in # and the one ending with lyx~), and it turned out both were complete, and the latter was the most actual one. Here is an advice, in case you are unlucky enough to get hit by this: * Check if the lyx file itself is complete (ends with \end_document) * If not, check if either the emergency file (#...#) or the backup file (*.lyx~) are complete * If only one is, rename it to the name of the original file. * If both are (as in Yan's case), give them different names and check the differences in LyX via Tools > Compare Jürgen
