I have run into this before and later discovered that what was happening was that my version was out of date not the one the other person was using.
I would suggest checking with the other author : He or she may be using a more modern version of LyX. If so you may need to upgrade. --- "Frederick [FN] Noronha * फà¥à¤°à¥à¤¡à¤°à¤¿à¤ नà¥à¤°à¥à¤à¤¯à¤¾" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Lyx-Users, When I try to read the Lyx file sent > to me by a writer > with whom I'm collaborating on a book, the message > I'm getting is > "/tmp/song of the survivors.lyx is from an earlier > version of Lyx, but > the lyx2lyx script failed to convert it". Any > solution? I'm on Lyx > 1.4.3 FN > -- > Frederick Noronha http://fn.goa-india.org Ph > 0091-832-2409490 > List of Indian e-lists > http://wikiwikiweb.de/MailingListsInIndia > Be smarter than spam. See how smart SpamGuard is at giving junk email the boot with the All-new Yahoo! Mail at http://mrd.mail.yahoo.com/try_beta?.intl=ca