[OS X TeX] Disaster

[George Gratzer]

Interesting.

GG


> On Aug 22, 2015, at 1:45 PM, Markus Klyver <markusklyver at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I would personally highly recommend Overleaf for (La)TeX thesis/essays. Dropbox is known to not work very well for that purpose.
> 
> Best Regards,
> Markus
> 
> > From: gratzer at me.com
> > Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2015 12:23:02 -0400
> > To: macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu
> > Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Disaster
> > 
> > Dick,
> > 
> > This was traumatic, but problems solved.
> > 
> > On the MacBook Air, somehow it did not read in the definition of \MathOrText,
> > causing hundreds of mistakes. I eliminated all, this problem is fixed.
> > 
> > Independently, the source file was corrupted, a big chunk replicated itself.
> > I have never seen anything like this before.
> > 
> > Coincidence, but who believes in coincidences? Two computers, same time.
> > 
> > > Do you use automatic saving?
> > 
> > I do not know. Is this something I set?
> > 
> > I have used Dropbox for many years, have never had problems before. 
> > It’s great for safety and for synchronizing work on more than one computer.
> > 
> > Dropbox also takes care of my photos, 237 GB-s!
> > 
> > Thanks for all the help offered.
> > 
> > George
> > 
> > 
> > > On Aug 22, 2015, at 11:33 AM, Richard Koch <koch at uoregon.edu> wrote:
> > > 
> > > George,
> > > 
> > > Do you use automatic saving?
> > > Try retreating to a previous version of your source. I’d be tempted to
> > > put that previous version in a blank folder, so aux and other temporary files have
> > > to be recreated.
> > > 
> > > I don’t have direct knowledge of Dropbox-TeX interaction, but using two pieces
> > > of third party software, each of which can save at any moment behind your back,
> > > feels sort of scary.
> > > 
> > > Dick Koch
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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