> On Jun 11, 2024, at 3:55 PM, Anders Ekberg via lyx-users > <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org> wrote: > >> 11 juni 2024 kl. 15:51 skrev Christopher Menzel <chris.men...@gmail.com>: >> >>> I have spent hours trying to figure out how one might be able to run BOTH >>> LyX 2.4 and LyX 2.3.8 on the same Mac computer with a Silicon chip and Mac >>> OS 14.5. No luck finding any useful information about this issue. >>> Is this possible? >> >> ... >> If all you want to do is install both versions of LyX, then, assuming you >> currently have LyX 2.3.8 installed, just open the Applications folder on >> your machine and rename LyX.app to “LyX 2.3.8.app” and then install LyX 2.4. >> I think the only issue is that LyX 2.3.8 will look in ~/Library/Application >> Support/LyX-2.3 for its support files (personal bind files, personal >> spellcheck files, etc) and LyX 2.4 will look in ~/Library/Application >> Support/LyX-2.4 so those could get out of sync. (You could probably create >> symlinks in your LyX-2.3 folder to keep things in sync but you can kick that >> can down the road for now.) > > I have used a setup like that for over a year with no problem. No Symlinks or > anything, just calling one app LyX, and the other LyX-23 (or whatever).
You’d need symlinks if you wanted to keep user files (e.g., the personal spelling dictionary files pwl_english.dict) for LyX 2.3.x and LyX 2.4.y in sync, as they are in separate directories under ~/Library/Application Support. -chris
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