Re: Unable to open file on older version 2.0.8.1

2017-10-03 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 04:30:34PM +, John Kane wrote: > Just to be a pedant, I think it is Ubuntu 16.04. Pedants welcome :) And for the record, I was the one who first made the mistake of using "16.4". Kim just copied what I put. Thanks for the correction, John. Scott signature.asc

Re: Unable to open file on older version 2.0.8.1

2017-10-03 Thread Richard Heck
Kim, Please send the file privately to me (rgh...@lyx.org), if that is possible. I will be able to figure out what is wrong pretty quickly. Another option: Run LyX from a terminal and try to open the file. You should see some more detailed error messages. Post them here---though you may also be

Re: Unable to open file on older version 2.0.8.1

2017-10-03 Thread John Kane
Just to be a pedant, I think it is Ubuntu 16.04. On 3 October 2017 at 10:14, Tim Q wrote: > Hi Scott, > Thanks for your prompt response. 1/ I'm currently using Ubuntu version > 16.4. > > 2/ I created a file using Lyx version 2.0.8.1 which is my back up file. > > 3/ I

Re: Unable to open file on older version 2.0.8.1

2017-10-03 Thread Tim Q
Hi Scott, Thanks for your prompt response. 1/ I'm currently using Ubuntu version 16.4. 2/ I created a file using Lyx version 2.0.8.1 which is my back up file. 3/ I installed Ubuntu 16.4 and Lyx 2.2.2 from Ubuntu software application. Now I get this message trying to open my backup file.

Re: Unable to open file on older version 2.0.8.1

2017-10-03 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Ah, the joys of version control. And the horror of not using it :-)-O el On 03/10/2017 01:29, Tim Q wrote: > hi, > > > "" Myreading.lyx is from an older version of LyX and the lyx2lyx script > failed to convert it. "" > > > This is the message i got when i tried to open a Lyx file from an

Re: Unable to open file on older version 2.0.8.1

2017-10-03 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2017-10-03, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > [-- Type: text/plain, Encoding: quoted-printable --] > On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 11:29:50PM +, Tim Q wrote: >> hi, >> "" Myreading.lyx is from an older version of LyX and the lyx2lyx script >> failed to convert it. "" >> This is the message i got when

Re: Unable to open file on older version 2.0.8.1

2017-10-02 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 11:29:50PM +, Tim Q wrote: > hi, > > > "" Myreading.lyx is from an older version of LyX and the lyx2lyx script > failed to convert it. "" > > This is the message i got when i tried to open a Lyx file from an older > version 2.0.8.1 that i have been using and I have

Unable to open file on older version 2.0.8.1

2017-10-02 Thread Tim Q
hi, "" Myreading.lyx is from an older version of LyX and the lyx2lyx script failed to convert it. "" This is the message i got when i tried to open a Lyx file from an older version 2.0.8.1 that i have been using and I have Ubuntu 14.0. This file is extremely important to me as i have been

Unable to open file on older version 2.0.8.1

2017-10-02 Thread Tim Q
hi, "" Myreading.lyx is from an older version of LyX and the lyx2lyx script failed to convert it. "" This is the message i got when i tried to open a Lyx file from an older version 2.0.8.1 that i have been using. This file is extremely important to me as i have been working on it for 2 years. I