I'm not quite ready to upgrade to Mavericks, but this technique is so fundamental to how OS X has worked since the very beginning I can't see Apple removing it. My search also came up empty on your issue.
Try this instead: Open a Finder window, pull down the 'Go' menu and choose the 'Go to Folder...' command. Enter this in the resulting 'Go to the folder:' dialog box (note that this is case sensitive): /Applications/LyX.app/Contents -- Rich On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 7:04 PM, justin <justina...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > > That's a stumper - an empty app would have nothing to run. If LyX > actually > runs, then the app can't possibly be empty. > > > > > > > > In OS X, the Finder presents an app as a single file, but it's actually > an > application bundle that contains the executable and other resources (in the > case of LyX the other resources include the example files). You access its > contents using the 'show package contents' command as Stephen specified > previously. That's been true since OS X 10.0, more than a dozen years ago. > (And well before that, in NeXTSTEP, from which OS X is derived.) > > > > I would suggest having a technically adept friend look at your > installation, or asking at your local Apple User Group (use this site to > find your local AUG: http://appleusergroupresources.com), or making a > Genius > Bar appointment at your local Apple Store. > > > > -- Rich > > > Do you know anyone who has had this method work on the new Mac OS? I have > been searching the internet for a solution, but I have not found anyone > reporting if it works or not on OX 10.9. Perhaps they changed things with > this new OS? The app itself is working, so maybe it is just keeping > everything invisible. I am not technically proficient, so I do not know > what > else to do. > > Or is there anywhere we can just download the files which will help us > learn > to use lyx? > > Thank you! > > >
