On Feb 4, 2006, at 5:41 AM, Ian Stevenson wrote:
Dear Bennett,
I hope the following may be helpful help but I suspect not as clear
as you would like.
OK ... but what precisely is the bug? What goes wrong with the
conversion from the old preferences file to the new? When I try it
here, the conversion from 1.3.5 to 1.3.7 goes smoothly, so if
there is a problem with the installer script I need more information.
I do not recall installing 1.3.5 so I think this is a fresh
install, I can only assume the 1.3.7 creates the ~/.lyx directory
Actually, from 1.3.6 on (including 1.3.7), the user's directory is at
~/Library/Application Support/LyX. 1.3.5 and earlier used ~/.lyx.
You'll have to be a bit more specific as there are at least 3 files
called "preferences" these are:
~/.lyx/preferences
~/Library/Application Support/Lyx/preferences
/Applications/Lyx.App/Contents/Resources/lyx/preferences
Preferences located within LyX.app are the default ones I include
with the binary, and they don't get changed by anything you do. So
it's only the first two I'd be interested in: the former would be
1.3.5, the latter 1.3.7.
Could you send me the following:
(a) your 1.3.5 preferences file,
(b) the 1.3.7 preferences file that the lyx installer produces, and
I deleted the following:
~/.lyx/preferences
~/Library/Application Support/Lyx/preferences
I have no way of knowing which is now in my "trash" folder
If you still have it, please send it: I can figure out which one it is.
(c) the 1.3.7 preferences file that works?
The only file that remains is: /Applications/Lyx.App/Contents/
Resources/lyx/preferences attached below for your reference.
Alas, that one won't help me.
Thanks for your persistence. I hope to have everything worked out
before 1.4.0 ships, so any help you can provide in tracking this down
would be appreciated.
Bennett
