Richard, Here is my configuration (I guess this is the default in Lyx): [image: image.png]
As I said before, there is no #...# file, yet the error appears. Regards, Julio Rojas jcredbe...@gmail.com On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 4:45 PM Richard Kimberly Heck <rikih...@lyx.org> wrote: > On 9/21/20 3:33 PM, jcredbe...@gmail.com wrote: > > Dear Yu, > > I have my document open since my last email yesterday. The #...# file was > not created. I just modified, save it, and the "error" window appeared > again. I have checked the lyx~ file and I have permissions for everything. > I closed Lyx, the lyx~ file is not deleted, > > That's correct behavior. > > > then I manually did. I reopened the file, edited the file, saved, again > the error appears. The #...# file was, again, not created. > > It should be created only when (a) the document has unsaved changes and > (b) autosave has been activated and the timeout period has elapsed. See > Tools> Preferences> Look & Feel> Document Handling, under Backup & Saving > for the setting. (As I said previously, if this is a shared Dropbox folder, > then the file could have been created by someone else's machine.) > > Riki > > On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 2:25 PM Yu Jin <yu_...@lyx.org> wrote: > >> About your original issue: >> Maybe it's a permissions issue? Did you check in Dropbox if you are >> allowed to change that file. I mean I have seen enough wired stuff where >> something unexplainable(for an average user at least) happened, and maybe >> dropbox changing permissions is one of those? >> >> About the other warning you got: >> Am So., 20. Sept. 2020 um 17:35 Uhr schrieb <jcredbe...@gmail.com>: >> >>> What I have tried is using another file in Dropbox, writing and >>> rewriting it. The error does not appear. >>> >>> I have just made what you suggested (saving the file outside of Dropbox) >>> and the following message appears: >>> [image: image.png] >>> That is a first! I do not even know what it means or why did it appear. >>> The original file is in the Dropbox folder, a new copy is in my Desktop, so >>> no, the file is shared (and not opened by someone else as I have updated >>> the version number and my coauthor is seated besides me). Saved, modified, >>> resaved, no problem with the copy. Closed the copy, opened the original, >>> modified, saved, the write failure error appears. >>> >> >> This is a warning from dropbox. "#file.lyx# is an autosave file of lyx, >> where your current work is saved when you don't manually save for a certain >> period of time, so when lyx crashes you can recover that file and don't >> lose all the progress. >> When you close lyx while the file is present, lyx deletes it. Dropbox >> doesn't know that it is just a backup file so it warns you that you are >> deleting a file from the cloud storage and therefore "it will no longer be >> shared with anyone". >> What is strange here is that the warning only happens when you hit "save >> unter" and save outside of dropbox. When you just close lyx (so the file >> also gets deleted) there is no warning, maybe we should investigate, I >> probably will later. >> That would explain this warning and you can just ignore it. >> -- >> Eugene >> > > >
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