Re: "view pdf" error: "the file doesn't exist" - what to do?

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Joachim Kreimer-de Fries wrote:

Moin Lyxers,

not for the first time I got today an LyX when clicking "show pdf" an error message:

Die Datei existiert nicht:
(I suppose in english: The file doesn't exist:)
/tmp/lyx_tmpdir.L12205/lyx_tmpbuf1/Lyra-Pracher-odt-teil.pdf

That was after adding an TeX code for another "footnoteB" (from the - loaded - manyfoot package), because I'm using for that the "handout (tufte)" layout because of the many sidenotes I need.

But because - at a certain point, when LaTeX (via LyX) said "too many floats" - I changed to the TeX-box \footnoteB command to get a real footnote. Which normally gives the planned result.

If the error message "The file doesn't exist ... .pdf" is a known problem, I ask:

==> how to come out of this situation best?

I found out by trial and error, that I deleted the last TeX inset \footnoteB{...}, (but after many other trials, even after clothing and reopening LyX, after deleting the LyX - /tmp ... xyz-files and so on).

Regained functionality of LyX in making and showing a pdf result, I reintroduced the TeX-inset \footnoteB and it worked.

Fine for the project. But Question:

=> are there reasons for that behaviour of LyX and/or other ways than just trying out, deleting the last inset(s) and remaking them?

==> What might be the reason of the LaTeX-error about "too many flouts" when inserting "footnotes" = sidenotes in the "handout (tufte)" class, even if on the page where I am working and on the horizontal space on the margin there is place enough for another "footnote"=sidenote?

Goutgaun! joachim
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I also meet this problem when I'm compiling the Tutorial.lyx.
It reported that the it can't find the pdf file to open.
I added the screen shot of this dialog.

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