I am using Lyx 2.0.7.1 on a Mac 10.6.8 I have a simple (less than 2 pages) document that has a few images. I edited/cropped one image using an external editor (per right click menu). I saved it over itself.
Now, no matter what I do, it refuses to update the picture. The uncropped version appears. In my lyxtmp folder, (which I set via the preferences to a folder in my documents, since I seemed to be having a problem with the default not having permissions...separate problem, but it is related, perhaps?) anyhoo, in the lyx temp folder I can see a bunch of png and eps files. The png files match the updated version. The eps remain like the uncropped original. I deleted all the files, reran, and lo and behold, it came back (wrong) again. I believed that I had moved the temp folder, but I found a folder /Users/---/Library/Application Support/LyX-2.0/cache that had a bunch of files endingn in eps, but without extensions, but if i added eps to them, I could se they were the eps files from my lyx document, and I could see the bad eps there. I deleted it, reran, and lo and behold, still no good. I tried closing files, Lyx, and reconfiguring LyX. No go. I tried reloading the picture. I tried deleting the picture, rerunning, then inserting the picture again and other various combinations I could think of. IN THE END: I did manage to get it to work by copying the original file with a new name, and rerunning. This seems however to be overkill, forces me to go hunting in the finder for the file, and ruins the naming scheme I use to make it easier to keep my images in order. At any rate, I don't believe this is how it should work. Why is there no way to force it to update. Thanks...
