On Sat, Dec 05, 2015 at 11:21:11AM +0000, Paola Manzini wrote:
> 
> On 5 Dec 2015, at 00:04, Scott Kostyshak 
> <skost...@lyx.org<mailto:skost...@lyx.org>> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 11:35:16PM +0000, Paola Manzini wrote:
> 
> The path for the temporary directory is:
> /var/folders/_q/_lf49ll933z7xvnbfdtmn8100000gn/T
> 
> OK. Can you do the following:
> 
> 1. Exit all LyX instances.
> 2. Run the command
>   ls -lR /var/folders/_q/_lf49ll933z7xvnbfdtmn8100000gn/
> 3. Open one .lyx file (which you said does not cause an error).
> 4. Run the same command as in 2.
> 5. Open another .lyx file. This should produce the error. Before
> clicking on OK for the error or anything else, run the same command as
> in step 2 again.
> 6. (still without clicking OK on the error or anything else), run the
> command
>   mkdir <path that is shown in the error>
> 
> So you should run the command in step 2 a total of 3 times and send us
> all of the output. Also send us the output from the mkdir command.
> 
> I ditched the stable version, so only have 2.2.0alpha2 now.
> 
> OK.
> 
> Finally, I am not sure whether this is what you wanted, but I used the 
> command in a Terminal window, which returned:
> 
> Filesystem   Size   Used  Avail Capacity  iused     ifree %iused  Mounted on
> /dev/disk1  931Gi  360Gi  570Gi    39% 94431751 149513719   39%   /
> 
> Yes this is what I wanted. I just wanted to confirm that the filesystem
> your temporary directory is on is not full (as the error you posted
> suggested).
> 
> Scott
> 
> 
> many thanks Scott - now it feels like when you complain of a noise in the 
> car, take it to the garage, and the car runs perfectly smoothly: I have been 
> unable to reproduce the error! I have opened several files, and nothing!

I guess this is good news although it would have been nice to know what
happened. Hopefully the problem stays away.

> So for the moment all seems to be running ok again, really sorry for the 
> trouble! But I have your instructions should the problem reappear.

OK sounds good.

Scott

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