>>>>> "John" == John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
John> On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 04:09:08PM +0100, Georg Baum wrote: >> If use_tempdir is false, lyx does not know wether a certain file >> was created by lyx or not. This means that every time you update >> the view, it will ask wteher it should overwrite the created files >> or not. If there are 100 John> I'd much rather kill "use_tempdir" pref altogether (hardwired John> true). I never got a good handle on when and why people need to John> turn it off. We have a number of exports that do not work without it. One example is html, which puts all of its output files to /tmp... It is probably fixable, but I never found time to do so. Basically, use_tempdir is difficult to get perfectly right, especially if you do not know in advance what files will be produced by the converter. JMarc
