What I am saying is that when I go to File > new, this is what I get. Hal
> On Mar 23, 2018, at 8:04 AM, Kornel Benko <kor...@lyx.org> wrote: > > Am Freitag, 23. März 2018 07:49:15 CET schrieb Hal Kierstead > <hal.kierst...@me.com <mailto:hal.kierst...@me.com>>: >> All - >> >> I have been very happily using LyX 2.3 on two Macs running OSX 10.13.3. But >> this morning I got this message on one of them (the other is fine) when I >> tried to open a new file: >> >> /Users/Hal/Library/Application Support/LyX-2.3/templates/defaults.lyx is >> from an older version of LyX and the lyx2lyx script failed to convert it. >> >> and then >> >> The specified document template >> .../Application Support/LyX-2.3/templates/defaults.lyx >> could not be read. >> >> Also, I tried to open an older LyX file and got: >> >> The specified document template >> .../Application Support/LyX-2.3/templates/defaults.lyx >> could not be read. >> >> I tried to reconfigure and got: >> >> The system reconfiguration has failed. >> Default textclass is used but LyX may >> not be able to work properly. >> Please reconfigure again if needed. >> >> What should I do? > > 1.) You could post this file, maybe something is wrong there, or maybe a bug > in > our lyx2lyx conversion. > or > 2.) Rename defaults.lyx, so that lyx is not able to use it as a default. > >> Thanks, >> >> Hal > > Kornel