On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 10:59 PM, Scott Kostyshak <skost...@lyx.org> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 09:46:14PM +0100, Liviu Andronic wrote: >> Dear all, >> With the pre-releases I sometimes (very rarely) notice a strange >> behavior, whereas LyX saves a document like: filename-412.lyx >> >> The numbers are always random, three digits. The strangely-named files >> appear in the same dir as the original filename.lyx file. I never know >> how to replicate this, nor if it's an issue (e.g. some stray backup >> being created by LyX). >> >> Has anyone else noticed something like this? > > Yes, this happens when you open and save a file that had a previous file > format. This way, if lyx2lyx causes data loss and you save your file, > you can still recover the original file. > > It is a new feature in 2.2.0. > Oh, nice feature. Perhaps we should display a quick pop-up telling the user this happened? I mean, this probably happens rarely enough, and otherwise the user may end up none the wiser (like I did) finding a strangely-named file in the working directory.
Also, do we mention this in About > Release notes? I couldn't spot any reference to this... Regards, Liviu > Scott -- Do you think you know what math is? http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/ian-stewart-2013-08-02 Or what it means to be intelligent? http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/john-duncan-2013-08-30 Think again: http://www.ideasroadshow.com/library
