Re: Strange xxx-lyxformat-474.lyx files

Rich, LyX has a versioning system (by default). It uses RCS, which used to be part of the XCode command line tools on the Mac (and can still be installed via homebrew) and an Ubuntu package by itself. There should be some Windoze package too, somewhere. There is also SVN support for document

Re: Strange xxx-lyxformat-474.lyx files

I got Time Machine running and am VERY diligent with Unison :-)-O, but of course once can always run ... rm -v ... But, find ~/ -name '*.lyx' -exec grep -h \\lyxformat {} \; | sort| uniq shows that I have LyX files from 26 different versions lying around :-)-O el On 2016-08-02 16:31, Steve

Re: Strange xxx-lyxformat-474.lyx files

Thank you all for clarifications and suggestions! I suspected the files were connected to the new 2.2 version, It's better to ask before deleting files and discover doing something stupid too late. 2016-08-02 17:52 GMT+02:00 David L. Johnson : > On 08/02/2016 10:40 AM,

Re: Strange xxx-lyxformat-474.lyx files

Am Dienstag, 2. August 2016 um 11:52:31, schrieb David L. Johnson > On 08/02/2016 10:40 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > > On Tue, 2 Aug 2016, David L. Johnson wrote: > > > >> These are being created since the files were edited by the new > >> version of > >> LyX you

Re: Strange xxx-lyxformat-474.lyx files

On 08/02/2016 10:40 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Tue, 2 Aug 2016, David L. Johnson wrote: These are being created since the files were edited by the new version of LyX you installed, which uses a newer format. LyX then auto-saves them in the old format so that you can edit it, if you need to,

Re: Strange xxx-lyxformat-474.lyx files

On Tue, 2 Aug 2016, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Note that if you specify a backup directory in Tools > Preferences > Paths, these files will end up there instead of the working directory, which might disturb you less. Jürgen, I'm not disturbed, just assumed they were backup files and deleted

Re: Strange xxx-lyxformat-474.lyx files

Am Dienstag, den 02.08.2016, 06:47 -0700 schrieb Rich Shepard: > On Tue, 2 Aug 2016, Påvel Nicklasson wrote: > > > I work on several projects in LyX. Lately I have noticed that in > the same > > folders as my .lyx files there is a second file called -lyxformat- > 474.lyx. > > For instance, if the

Re: Strange xxx-lyxformat-474.lyx files

On Tue, 2 Aug 2016 15:26:42 +0100 Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: > find ~/ -name '*-lyxformat-*.lyx' -exec rm {] \; Danger Will Robinson! I personally would never run a one-liner that does deletions. My pencil has an eraser because I make mistakes. A mistake with such a one liner

Re: Strange xxx-lyxformat-474.lyx files

On Tue, 2 Aug 2016, Richard Heck wrote: It's a new feature with 2.2. When you load files with a new major release, it has to be converted to the new format (which encodes various new features). We had some cases where people tried to load files with 2.1 and the file was for some reason

Re: Strange xxx-lyxformat-474.lyx files

On 08/02/2016 10:40 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Tue, 2 Aug 2016, David L. Johnson wrote: > >> These are being created since the files were edited by the new >> version of >> LyX you installed, which uses a newer format. LyX then auto-saves >> them in >> the old format so that you can edit it, if

Re: Strange xxx-lyxformat-474.lyx files

On Tue, 2 Aug 2016, David L. Johnson wrote: These are being created since the files were edited by the new version of LyX you installed, which uses a newer format. LyX then auto-saves them in the old format so that you can edit it, if you need to, with an older version of LyX. This seems to be

Re: Strange xxx-lyxformat-474.lyx files

find ~/ -name '*-lyxformat-*.lyx' -exec rm {] \; el On 2016-08-02 14:58, David L. Johnson wrote: > On 08/02/2016 09:47 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: >> On Tue, 2 Aug 2016, Påvel Nicklasson wrote: >> >>> I work on several projects in LyX. Lately I have noticed that in the >>> same >>> folders as my

Re: Strange xxx-lyxformat-474.lyx files

On 08/02/2016 09:47 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Tue, 2 Aug 2016, Påvel Nicklasson wrote: I work on several projects in LyX. Lately I have noticed that in the same folders as my .lyx files there is a second file called -lyxformat-474.lyx. For instance, if the regular file is called xxx.lyx. The

Re: Strange xxx-lyxformat-474.lyx files

On Tue, 2 Aug 2016, Påvel Nicklasson wrote: I work on several projects in LyX. Lately I have noticed that in the same folders as my .lyx files there is a second file called -lyxformat-474.lyx. For instance, if the regular file is called xxx.lyx. The second is called xxx-lyxformat-474.lyx. The

Strange xxx-lyxformat-474.lyx files

I work on several projects in LyX. Lately I have noticed that in the same folders as my .lyx files there is a second file called -lyxformat-474.lyx. For instance, if the regular file is called xxx.lyx. The second is called xxx-lyxformat-474.lyx. The 474.lyx files seems to be old versions of the