[OS X TeX] Beamer/MacTex2012/old files

[Herbert Schulz]

On Jul 27, 2012, at 9:58 AM, Leslie Morland (MTH) wrote:

> Using latest snowleopard on MacBookPro and IMac. Discovered earlier beamer class files would not typeset, stopped at \begin{document}, so downloaded and installed MacTex2012. All well on Book, but took a long time to find that TexShop2012 had not been installed (?) in user Library on IMac, but replacing 2007 one from Book put that right. Now see that texmf/tex subfolders contain a lot of 2007/8 files, as does Main Library Tex/Local. Are these still operating, and if not which can be trashed? Nice to clean up, but concerned essential files for 2012 could be lost.
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> Leslie


Howdy,

What is TeXShop2012? The MacTeX installer places TeXShop (3.11 for OS X 10.7/8, 2.47 for 10.5/6) in /Applications/TeX. Are you saying that you are seeing files from TeX Live 2007/8 mixed in with files from 2012? is that happening during a compile? Do you have ``updates'' stored in your personal tree (~/Library/texmf/... --- where ~/Library is the library folder in your HOME folder)? What is Main Library Tex/Local?

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)