Thank you Bennett, it worked.
You were right: The Apple transfer program does not transfer any files
from an existing TeX installation. I had to run the whole process again,
including the redefinition of some converter's flags and other things I
had tweaked to suit my needs ... too bad.
Since I am using i-installer, I had to search for any remaining
ii2-files first to get it to start a Tex installation from scratch
(because ii2-files /are /transfered by Apple's transfer program since
they're stored in the "right" places, so i-installer thinks there's
still a valid installation and refuses to overwrite). -- Just as a hint
for people who may find themselves in a similar situation.
Also, it was necessary to move /Library/texmf out of the way first.
Finally, I reinstalled Lyx for Intel-Macs and made sure it remembers
where I store my stuff. Now I'm fully operational again.
--Christian
Bennett Helm wrote:
On Dec 8, 2006, at 7:50 PM, Christian Liesen wrote:
Hi,
I've just got myself a new MacBook Pro, which feautures the Intel
Core 2 CPUs. I had a PPC Mac before and transfered all data using the
Apple standard feature, i.e. connecting both machines with a firewire
cable during setup of the new machine and voila!, everything's there.
Both machines had OS X 10.4.8 installed.
Now there's something weird about Lyx. I updated to the version for
Intel-Macs, but Lyx has forgot about all the settings. It doesn't
find a single viewer, nor a single document class -- they're all
marked as "unavailable" in the Document Settings dialogue. It does
remember my documents, though.
I'm a little confused about this and don't know what to do. Do I have
to reinstall TeX?
Any hints would be highly appreciated.
If you haven't installed TeX on your new computer, you'll need to. As
far as I know, Apple's transfer program looks at standard Mac
directories only -- such as /Users and /Applications. Since TeX gets
installed elsewhere, it gets ignored.
That means you'll probably want to run the LyX installer again on your
new machine -- after you've installed TeX on it.
Bennett
