On May 8, 2006, at 5:38 PM, Maria Gouskova wrote:
I cannot say that I understand what LyX does with the preferences
file exactly, because the installer appears to copy the preferences
on its own during the installation process. But it isn't clear
which preferences file it copies. After poking around my hard
drive, I realized that I now have at least *three* LyX preferences
files: one in Library/Application Support/LyX (original 1.3.7
file), one in /Library/Application Support/LyX-1.4 (contents
identical to the first one, from what I can see), and in
Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources (different contents). The
directory LyX-1.4 was installed by LyX 1.4.1, and the directory LyX
(inside Lib/App Support) is leftover from LyX 1.3.7, apparently
unchanged by the upgrade.
Everything righted itself after I deleted the second file, Library/
Application Support/LyX-1.4.
I am attaching all three files for your perusal.
Maria
<preferences_1_4_1>
<preferences_inside_lyx>
<preferences1_3_7>
Thanks.
On the Mac, preference files within LyX.app are the default
preferences; when you first change any preference setting, LyX
creates a new preferences file in the User's directory using the
defaults as a template. LyX-1.3.5+ used ~/Library/Application Support/
LyX for the User's directory; LyX-1.4.x uses ~/Library/Application
Support/LyX-1.4 for the User's directory. (The change in location
here is designed so that users can continue to use 1.3.x and 1.4.x
simultaneously, if they so desire. Various settings or files in the
User's directory are incompatible between the two versions.) The
1.4.x installer copies your 1.3.x directory to the new location and
modifies some settings to reflect that change. However, the installer
should not touch format/converter settings, and so the difficulty
you've had in upgrading should not happen.
Nonetheless, something went wrong. Unfortunately, the preferences
files you sent don't reveal to me what the problem was. And I'm out
of ideas for what else might have caused the problem.
Bennett
