[OS X TeX] Re: Automatic Backup in TeXShop

[Richard Koch]

Folks,

I finally got around to looking this up. The help file is wrong (and  
I'm very, very sorry).
Replace "SaveBackup" by "KeepBackup". Thus

	defaults write TeXShop KeepBackup YES

turns backups on.

Dick

On Jan 17, 2006, at 2:20 PM, Bastian Philipps wrote:
> Peter Dyballa said the following on 17.1.2006 23:12 Uhr:
>> Am 16.01.2006 um 10:09 schrieb Bastian Philipps:
>>> as described in TeXShop's Help there seems to be a hidden pref,  
>>> enabling
>>> TeXShop so make automatic backups on each LaTeX-Run.
>>>
>>> I tried 'defaults write TeXShop SaveBackup YES' and after  
>>> consulting the
>>> archives 'defaults write TeXShop KeepBackup YES', but somehow  
>>> none works.
>>>
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