> If all files do have an original location (I thought you wanted to > allow more weird things like drag-n-drop of an image without file > name),
This can be handled as, e.g. 'PASTED78434.png' in the document directory in the same way as others. > then I am not sure why we need more than two check boxes in > document settings: > > [ ] embed external files > [ ] update embedded files from their external source Mostly because I want an interface to add and extract arbitrary files such as layout, .bst, even source code to produce the figures. Also, there are cases when you do not want to embed all files. For example, when you only want a compressed .lyx file (assuming compression feature is removed). Bo