[OS X TeX] Can't write on file xxx.aux

[David Watson]

I recall that apple changed the default  way groups are assigned to  
users around OS 10.3 or 10.4.

It used to be that a user would have owner:group set to ownersname:staff
That changed to ownersname:ownersname for people who did a complete  
reinstall, but left the user:group intact for those who did the  
upgrade in place.

I would guess that you have a different group setting on one machine,  
and that when you copied the files, the group doesn't exist on the  
other machine. You could go into the terminal an try "ls -l" on both  
machines to see if this might be the case.

On May 20, 2006, at 7:37 AM, Alain Schremmer wrote:

> Bruno Voisin wrote:
>
>> Le 20 mai 06 à 04:21, Alain Schremmer a écrit :
>>
>>> I am normally working with TeXShop 1.43 on a Dual 1 GHz PowerPC  
>>> G4  under 10.3.9 and, in order to work on the book while away for  
>>> a few  days, not knowing which file was calling which file, I  
>>> copy  everything—including the style sheets—onto my 400 MHz  
>>> PowerPC G3  also running under 10.3.9
>>
>>
>> What do you mean by "everything"? The directory containing your  
>> book  project, with all illustrations, calculations, style sheets  
>> -- which  would be OK --, or your personal texmf directory at ~/ 
>> Library/texmf  -- which should be OK, provided no format files or  
>> texmf.cnf or  similar live there, cos' they could have special  
>> permissions  destroyed by copying from one machine to another --,  
>> or the system- wide texmf tree at /Library/teTeX -- which should  
>> *not* be copied?
>
> Directory and style sheet from one ~/Library/texmf to the other.  
> Nothing else. Checked permissions.
>
>>> Yet, this time, when I try to typeset a file xxx, I get "I can't   
>>> write on file xxx.aux", no matter what xxx.
>>
> Sorry, not true, just found a counter example: there exists an xxx  
> that I can typeset.
>
> Have to go. Taking PowerBook with me. Will report Tuesday.
>
> Thanks to all.
> --schremmer
>
>
>
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