Dear Paul, Thanks! As it turns out, when I copied the file from my removable SanDisk to follow your advice, then LyX read it perfectly, no lyx2lyx failure.
I have other LyX files on the removable disk (created with 1.5.3 on Ubuntu) which open with no problems. I don't quite follow the details of what is happening, but if I copy the files from the removable disk to the Linux desktop then the problems disappear. In any case, I have now regained over 2 years worth of work. Thanks again! Best, Jay Guessing blind here, but maybe an encoding problem? You might try running iconv against one of them, converting to utf8 (with a new file name so as not to overwrite the original), then see if LyX can open the converted copy. Otherwise, maybe you could post a small example that doesn't open in 1.5.3. /Paul On Feb 11, 2008 8:35 PM, G. Jay Kerns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear LyX users, > > I am in the process of graduating from Windows to Linux. I installed > LyX 1.5.3 on an Ubuntu Gutsy using the Synaptic Package Manager. > > Now it seems that I cannot open any of my old LyX files (<= 1.5.2). > It says that "(Myfile) came from an earlier version of LyX, but > lyx2lyx failed to convert the file." I found an earlier post from > December that suggested changing > > \language default > > to > > \language english > > but this doesn't work for me because my file already has \language > english. I checked the top of my file and it says > > #LyX 1.4.3-5 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/ > > \lyxformat 245 > > Can anyone please help me? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. > > Sincerely, > Jay > > > > > > > *************************************************** > G. Jay Kerns, Ph.D. > Assistant Professor / Statistics Coordinator > Department of Mathematics & Statistics > Youngstown State University > Youngstown, OH 44555-0002 USA > Office: 1035 Cushwa Hall > Phone: (330) 941-3310 Office (voice mail) > -3302 Department > -3170 FAX > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.cc.ysu.edu/~gjkerns/ > -- *************************************************** G. Jay Kerns, Ph.D. Assistant Professor / Statistics Coordinator Department of Mathematics & Statistics Youngstown State University Youngstown, OH 44555-0002 USA Office: 1035 Cushwa Hall Phone: (330) 941-3310 Office (voice mail) -3302 Department -3170 FAX E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cc.ysu.edu/~gjkerns/
