On 2025/01/21 10:36, José Matos wrote: > On Mon, 2025-01-20 at 21:16 -0800, Lars wrote: [...] >> I created a lyx document a week or two ago with the then newest >> version of Lyx in the current stable distribution. Today, I tried to >> open the same document, and I receive this error: >> >> file.lyx is from a newer version of LyX, and lyx2lyx failed to convert it. >> >> Both the PC the document was created on and the PC I'm trying to open >> it on have very recent versions of LyX. They may not be the exact same >> versions, since one PC runs the latest stable Debian, and one the >> latest LTS Ubuntu, so both PCs have recent versions of LyX >> installed.... >> >> How can this be? >> >> Sincerely, >> Lars. > > The error message implies that you are using an older version of LyX to open a > document created with a newer version. > > This can happen, for example, if you have used LyX 2.4 to create the document > and then open it using LyX 2.3 (that not the latest stable release). > > So I suspect that you have used different versions and thus that is where the > problem comes from. > > What is the version of LyX that you are using to open the file? > > Regards,
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