[OS X TeX] Disaster

[Richard Seguin]

> On Aug 24, 2015, at 5:32 PM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:
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>> On Aug 24, 2015, at 5:14 PM, Markus Klyver <markusklyver at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi again!
>> 
>> However, that requires you to pause ans unpause the sync for every re-compilation you make, and believe me: a thesis require many such changes.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Markus
>> 
>>> From: herbs at wideopenwest.com
>>> Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 16:42:12 -0500
>>> To: macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu
>>> Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Disaster
>>> 
>>>> On Aug 24, 2015, at 3:52 PM, Markus Klyver <markusklyver at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> "It is perhaps worth disabling synchronisation while you are processing LaTeX - to prevent Dropbox from updating its records with every minor change to the auxiliary files, as at least one other poster has mentioned."
>>>> 
>>>> Yeah, but that becomes tedious after a while to do, especially if you only apply small changes for re-compilation.
>>>> 
>>>> Markus
>>> 
>>> Howdy,
>>> 
>>> Not so difficult! Click on the DropBox icon in the Menu Bar. Hover over `up to date' in the lower left corner of the window; it changes to `pause syncing' and click there.
>>> 
>>> Good Luck,
>>> 
>>> Herb Schulz
>>> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
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> 
> Howdy,
> 
> No it doesn't. There is no need to restart syncing after each compile. Pause it when you start to edit and turn it back on at the end of the day.
> 
> Good Luck,
> 
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)

I agree with Herb on this, and I take the same approach with Time Machine, leaving automatic backups turned off but manually turning on a backup at the end of the day if there is anything important that I think I need to protect. Computers, hard drives and SSDs do fail, but so infrequently that it’s senseless to worry about protecting every second of your work during the day.

Richard Séguin