John -- yes, the "#" files appear to be autosaves. And thanks for the
fallback DVI, etc., suggestion.
After testing, I see that:
"emergency" files are created if there is a crash.
"~" files are "archive" backups of the last "saved" version. (These
appear beginning with the second "save".)
"#" are "autosave" backups; they get updated if the file changes
before the backup interval (set in preferences) expires. These files
are deleted by a "save" operation. So, if a "#" exists, it is more
recent than a "~" file.
So, the time ordering of the files would be, beginning with most
recent (and assuming they exist):
"emergency" files
"#" files
"~" files
humanengr
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 2:11 PM, humanengr<humane...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know what role the "#" are supposed to play?
These appear to be autosaves.
Also there is yet another type of file you can recover from. If you
have done a view DVI etc, there is also likely to be a .tex file
sitting somewhere in your tmp directory. You can then import that .tex
file back into LyX. This saved me from retyping a couple of paragraphs
of math once.
--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia
