On 05/16/2011 06:23 PM, Joost Verburg wrote: > "Vincent van Ravesteijn" <v...@lyx.org> wrote in message > news:4dd16a18.1080...@lyx.org... >> The reason was that the installer configured LyX using the >> preferences of LyX 1.6. In particular this meant that in Tools >> ->Preferences->Path, there was the path to >> C:\Program Files\LyX16\python which didn't exist anymore. > I noticed the prefs2prefs script. Does it try to import the PATH from the > LyX 1.6 preferences? If this is the case that's definately a bug, because > the preferences would override the value in lyxrc.dist. > The only thing prefs2prefs does is convert any old preferences file that LyX tries to load to the new format. So it won't do anything unless it finds a preferences file in the user dir.
Richard
