On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 6:42 AM, Sutanuka <sutanuka....@gmail.com> wrote: > Scott Kostyshak <skostysh <at> lyx.org> writes: > >> >> On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 7:27 PM, Sutanuka <sutanuka.ami <at> > gmail.com> wrote: >> > hi, >> > >> > I am running lyx 2.1.3 in windows 8.1 in my new laoptop. I can >> > succesfully open my old lyx files of size 40kb and generate pdf from > it. >> > But when I try to open other lyx files of size 258kb or more, it > never >> > opens and lyx hangs showing not responding for hours. >> > >> > I have written all these lyx files in my previous laptop having > exactly >> > same configuration, only difference being the processor in my old > laptop >> > was intel i3 and in my new laptop it is amd a4. And I generated > these >> > files using lyx 2.0.5 in windows 7. In my old laptop, I have > succesfully >> > created, edited and converted these files to pdf. >> > >> > Please help me. I need to solve it urgently. I tried uninstalling > and >> > reinstalling several times. But still I can not open the file of > size 258 >> > kb in lyx 2.1.3 in windowds 8.1 in my new laptop. >> > >> > regards, >> > Sutanuka >> >> Hi Sutanuka, >> >> This is possibly a lyx2lyx bug. You can instead use 2.0.8.1 (download >> here: ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/2.0.8.1/), which uses the same >> format as 2.0.5. If you would like to help us fix the bug, please >> create a minimal example (see wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/MinimalExample). The >> way to do that would be to use 2.0.5, delete half of the .lyx file >> that is causing the problem, save and then open on 2.1.3. If there is >> an error, then in 2.0.5 delete another half and keep iterating. If >> there was not an error, then delete the other half. >> >> To do a few simple things to make sure everything else is fine, can >> you open a very simple document in your 2.1.3 that you created in >> 2.0.5 (e.g. a "hello world" document)? Can you compile a simple >> document in 2.1.3? >> >> Please respond to the list, and not to me personally. >> >> Best, >> >> Scott >> >> > > Hi Scott, > > Thank you very much. I used 2.0.8 instead of 2.1.3 and the problem is > solved. > To answer your second question, yes, I opened and compiled a small lyx > file in 2.1.3, which was originally generated using 2.0.5. I was able to > generate pdf from it. But the problem starts only when the file is > large. Actually this file is a ieee paper having more than 8 figures and > five tables. > It's possible that the failure happens not because the file is large in itself, but because it contains something lyx2lyx is unable to handle correctly.
> Thank you once again for helping me out. I was almost on the verge of > blaming my new laptop (bought only yesterday) and was thinking of > changing it. You saved my days. Will it be possible to fix this bug so > that we can successfully port files from 2.0.5 to 2.1.3 ? > Please use Scott's steps to either test the file with 2.0.8.1, or to come up with a minimal example exhibiting the issue in 2.1.x (the latter being the only way we could pinpoint the problem and see if it can be addressed). Regards, Liviu > Regards, > Sutanuka > > > > > > -- Do you think you know what math is? http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/ian-stewart-2013-08-02 Or what it means to be intelligent? http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/john-duncan-2013-08-30 Think again: http://www.ideasroadshow.com/library
