[OS X TeX] Disaster

[David Goldenberg]

I have used Dropbox extensively for the past three years, for LaTeX and other things, and have never had any trouble with it.  Maybe I have just been lucky?

David

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> Message: 1
> Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2015 11:21:13 -0400
> From: George Gratzer <gratzer at me.com>
> To: TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List <macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu>
> Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Disaster
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> 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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