On 05/30/2014 12:26 PM, Richard Heck wrote:
Do the corrupted files end with "\begin_inset Tabular"?
Yes. So I gather this is nothing new (or else you're an incredibly lucky
guesser).
Do you have auto-completion on?
Yes for math, no for text.
How about auto-save, which is at Toos> Preferences> Document Handling,
"Backup documents, every
N minutes"?
No.
Those all seem to relate to the problems we've seen.
If the document file itself is corrupted, that suggests you were
trying to save it, yes? I'm not sure
why LyX would over-write that file unless you were trying to save it.
But that's been bugging me
for a while now....
I think I hit ctrl-S to save the last thing I did, and then clicked
somewhere before the GUI evaporated, and I think I saw the cursor assume
its new position before entropy won out. It could be that I clicked fast
enough to beat a crash during the save, or it could be the save went
okay and the click precipitated the crash.
More importantly, at the moment: In the same dialog, is "Backup
original documents when saving"
also enabled? If so, then you should find a valid backup file in the
Backups directory specified under
Tools> Preferences> Paths or, if no directory is specified, the
document directory. The file will have
a name like
!home!rgheck!files!documents!classes!phil1885.lyx~
and may be "hidden", like a dot file.
No, it's not. Fortunately, though, I had symlinked the folder to my
Dropbox folder (and then forgotten I'd done so). I was able to retrieve
the last pre-crash version from Dropbox. Hence the lack of swear-words
in this message.
Paul
