From: "lyx-users@lists.lyx.org" <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org> on behalf of gordon
cooper <gordon_coo...@kinect.co.nz>
Date: Monday 5 December 2016 09:24
To: "lyx-users@lists.lyx.org" <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org>
Subject: Re: Default directory for backups
By related file (and I was not quite sure how to describe it), I mean a
copy of the file
that I am working on. Most of my work in Lyx is documentation for an
operating system,
MX-Linux. Two of us write/edit the user manual. There are annual major
updates, plus
bug fixing etc during the year. Therefore I use a separate folder for
each version of the
project, and find that Lyx will save a copy of the present workfile into
that folder, if I
forget to do a save myself.
Gordon.
On 05/12/16 21:00, racoon wrote:
On 05.12.2016 01:40, gordon cooper wrote:
On 05/12/16 12:19, racoon wrote:
Does someone know where LyX puts backups of unsaved documents?
I find Lyx copies in the folder that I am using for the related Lyx
file.
Thanks.
What is the "related LyX file" you are using? (As I mentioned, I have
not saved my document yet, so I guess my document isn't the file you
refer to.)
My guess is that the backups are stored in some temp directory but I
cannot remember which one. I am on Windows 7.
Maybe it would be nice to list that path somewhere in LyX. Maybe in
the About dialog together with the library and user directory?
Did you already check out the “path” tab in the LyX preference box?
Jan
