Jean-Claude Christnach wrote:
Hi again,
As specified in Edit/Preferences Lyx should backup documents every 5
minutes. I can't see any backups nor autosave in my working directory. I
specified a path in the preferences for the backup directory. It is on
my drive U: . The former version also did no backups or autosave.
btw I use Windows XP
best regards
I don't think that the backupdir has anything to do with the auto-saving. I
think that its the place that your original file goes when you press
"File->Save". Others who know this code better than I do may be able to
comment further.
Testing the autosave stuff... Everything is working for me (also XP).
If you run LyX from the cmd console as
PROMPT> lyx -dbg files
You should see a message
Temporary file `C:/Documents and Settings/Angus/Local
Settings/Temp/lyx_tmpdir3660a02724/lyxauto3660a02724' created.
(the random numbers will be different)
indicating that your file has been autosaved. (Reset the frequency of this
saving to 1 minute in the Edit->Preferences dialog, Look and Feel->User
interfaces pane. To be safe, I shut down and restarted LyX after Saving the
change.
After LyX has created this temporary file, it should copy it to the
directory containing your document. If your document is called "foo.lyx"
then you should see a file "#foo.lyx#".
