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 second is
called
xxx-lyxformat-474.lyx. The 474.lyx files seems to be old versions of the
regular files.
I, too, have started to find these apparent backup files left in the
document directory when I exit lyx. It would be nice for them to be
cleaned
up when the program exits, but I do it manually.
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 a reasonable thing to do at the
start of a new format, and will not occur when you edit files using
LyX-2.2 that are already in the new format.
--
David L. Johnson
Department of Mathematics
Lehigh University
