Albert Pettersson wrote: > Every time I create a new document, say example.lyx, a file > example.lyx~ is made. I suppose this is some kind of temporary file. > Files like these were created in LyX 1.4.x as well, but then they were > automatically deleted when LyX was shut down. Now, however, this does > not happen. The *.lyx~ files remain for ever, it seems. What have I > done wrong that makes this happen?
You probably had a backup path in Tools->Preferences->Paths, which disappeared during the upgrade, that's why the backups are saved in your working directory now. Jürgen