Actually, it is created not right away, but after a while. I left the Windows computer on with the file open, sure that the #...# file was deleted. After lunch and some gardening, I came back and guess what? The #...# is there, waiting for me, created at 14:29. I manually deleted it, modified the file, saved it, the error appears, but no #...# file is created!!! Voodoo things! :P
Regards, Julio Rojas jcredbe...@gmail.com On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 3:26 PM Paul A. Rubin <parubi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 9/20/20 1:43 PM, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: > > On 9/20/20 12:46 PM, jcredbe...@gmail.com wrote: > >> BTW, on my Mac I have Lyx v. 2.3.1-1. My coauthor has 2.3.0!!! > >> Curious, isn´t it? A regression? > > > > Again, it's just a guess, but I think this might have been a 'stale' > > lockfile. It got left behind at some point so Dropbox is confused. > > That's why the file seems like a 'normal' file somehow and you're > > being asked if you want to delete it. > > > > Riki > > > > > I agree with Riki. Also, I suspect this is a LyX on Windows (or LyX on > Dropbox on Windows) thing. I use Linux Mint on my devices, and I can > have the same file open (in a Dropbox folder) on two devices, make > changes on both devices, and never get a lock file. On the other hand, I > do some work with a coauthor who uses LyX on Windows. In one of our > shared Dropbox folders, I see a #TbPapers.lyx# file with a 2018 > modification date. It's a file she created and maintained -- I don't > think I ever touched it -- so my guess is LyX created it during some > edit and never removed it. As best I can recall, I've only seen the > #...# stuff with LyX files. > > As lock files go, they're a bit odd. Normally a lock file has zero bytes > (or maybe one or two). Its job is just to exist, signaling the real file > is in use. In the case of #TbPapers.lyx#, it's almost as large as the > actual TbPapers.lyx file. There's also a TbPapers.lyx~ file, and all > have the same file date. So the ~ file is the normal backup LyX creates > when a save is done. > > I don't work with anyone using LyX on a Mac, so I have no idea if it > participates in this madness. :-) > > Paul > >
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