[OS X TeX] problem with running project root file

[Sheetal Silal]

Nope, it just did it all by itself. The crazy thing is it wrote over the chapters even though it wouldn't typeset!
 
Ms Sheetal Silal
Health Economics Unit
Health Science Faculty
University of Cape Town
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>>> "Ari Stern" <ari at caltech.edu> 8/21/2008 11:48 PM >>>
I'm still confused as to how LaTeX wrote *over* your chapters.  LaTeX
should just read your *.tex input files, it shouldn't do *anything* to
change them.  Could you have accidentally renamed Epidemiology.aux to
Epidemiology.tex at some point?

Cheers,
Ari

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Sheetal Silal <Sheetal.Silal at uct.ac.za> wrote:
> I thought that would be the case. Sad thing is I made changes since my last backup and  it did this to two chapters. Well, gonna have to start the updating! Thanks for all your help!
>
> Sheetal
>
>
>>>> Maarten Sneep <maarten.sneep at xs4all.nl> 08/21/08 11:36 PM >>>
>
> On 21 aug 2008, at 23:26, Sheetal Silal wrote:
>
>> Thesis is the main file.
>
> The main file seems to be OK (not a lot that can go wrong with that
> small amount of code).
>
>> What you see in the Chapter file 'Epidemiology' is what became of my
>> chapter that was once full of writing and diagrams.
>> That chapter file included the Document settings and all the
>> packages and the \begin and \end{document}. At the point when i
>> first typesetted the thesis.tex file (main file) I didnt know that
>> one wasnt supposed to have the preamble stuff and begin and end
>> document bit.  That was when the writing in the chapter
>> 'Epidemiology' became what it looks now in the attachment. So I am
>> trying to get my chapter with all my writing in it back!
>
> I have bad news for you, I hope you have a backup. It is hard to
> reconstruct now, but it is possible to overwrite files in LaTeX. How
> it decided to overwrite Epidemiology.tex, I don't know, but that text
> is gone.
>
> Maarten
>
>
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