[OS X TeX] MacOSX-TeX Digest, Vol 174, Issue 4

[William Slough]

Catherine,

Has something recently been changed on your computer? Perhaps a MacOS
update? Which version of MacOS are you running?

To confirm your collection of files has the content you expect (and not
empty), can you open a terminal window, move to one of the
folders/directories  (with an appropriate "cd" command) in question and
"cat" one of the .tex files? This should at the very least provide some
reassurance if you can see the content.

It sounds like you are experiencing some type of Unix-style permissions
problem ... which might be related to a MacOS update you recently performed?

By the way, once you get this problem resolved, you should investigate
using TimeMachine or some other similar backup mechanism to protect against
disasters.

Bill

On Sun, Apr 10, 2022 at 11:15 AM Catherine Asaro <asaro at pobox.com> wrote:

> Sorry, part of my email got deleted. #3 should have said
>
> 3. I closed the file I was working on and tried to reopen it and retry
> typeset. When I did that, I got a file with nothing in it but the following
> message:
>
>
> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592653-2.6-1.40.22 (TeX Live 2021) (preloaded
> format=pdflatex)
>  restricted \write18 enabled.
> entering extended mode
> (./Problem Set for Kathryn -- Vietas and
> proof.tex/Library/TeX/texbin/pdflatex: getcwd: Operation not permitted
>
> My apologies for the confusion.
>
> Best regards,
> Catherine Asaro
> catherineasaro.net
> patreon.com/CatherineAsaro
>
> On Apr 10, 2022, at 12:08 PM, Catherine Asaro <asaro at pobox.com> wrote:
>
> I hope someone can help me with a possible TeX disaster. I have several
> decades worth of tex documents I've been developing for my students over
> the years, hundreds of problems set and so on. I started a new do today,
> and when I tried to typeset it using the LaTex button, I received a message
> that said it was restricted. Retrying it did no good. I kept receiving the
> following message:
>
> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592653-2.6-1.40.22 (TeX Live 2021) (preloaded
> format=pdflatex)
>  restricted \write18 enabled.
> entering extended mode
> (./Problem Set for Kathryn -- Vietas and
> proof.tex/Library/TeX/texbin/pdflatex: getcwd: Operation not permitted
>
> So I did the following:
>
> 1. Opened old files that have worked for decades and hit the latex
> message. That didn't work because the files appear to be empty. ALL OF
> THEM. POtentially decades worth of work appears to have disappeared,
> hundreds of documents. I'm praying this isn't the case, that for some
> reason I just can't access them. It told me the file was locked. I tried to
> unlock it and it said I didn't have permission. These are files that I've
> been using and develolping for many, many years. I didn't try to open many
> of them, for fear that the process of trying to open them might be
> destroying the information.
>
> 2. I tried to make a new file. When I hit the typeset button, I received
> the following message:
>
> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592653-2.6-1.40.22 (TeX Live 2021) (preloaded
> format=pdflatex)
>  restricted \write18 enabled.
> entering extended mode
> (./Test.tex/Library/TeX/texbin/pdflatex: getcwd: Operation not permitted
>
> 3. I closed the file I was working on and tried to reopen it and retry
> typset. When I did that, I got a file with nothing in it but the following
> message:
>
> Can someone help me?
>
> This is the info it gives me for the version of TexShop that I use:
>
> TeXShop Version 3.04 (3.04)
> TeXShip is produced under the GPL public license. Coordination by
>
>
> Rochard Koch
>
> Code by [long list of coders]
>
> Open Source Framewords and Classes
>
> NoodleLineNumberMarker
>
> NoodleLineNumberView
>
> Cocoa classes from Paul Kim.
>
> Copyright (c) 2008 Noodlesoft, LLC
>
> All right reserved.
>
> http://www.noodlesoft.com/blog/.
>
>
> Warranty statement.
>
> OgreKit, a Find Panel Framework,
> supporting regular expressions.
> The framework is by Isao Sonobe.
> Released under the BSD license.
> http://www8.ocn.ne.jp/~sonoisa/OgreKit/.
>
>
> Sparkle, a Software Update Framework
> by Andy Matuschak. The framework is
> Released under MIT/X/ Expat License.
> http://sparkle.andymatuschak.org/.
>
>
> Localization by many people (it gives a list)
>
> Contact Information:
>
>
> Richard Koch
>         Mathematics Department
>         University of Oregon
>         Eugene, Oregon 97403
> koch at math.uoregon.edu
>
>
> Copyright 2001-2011 Richard Koch http://www.texshop.org
>
>
> ====
>
>
> Best regards,
> Catherine Asaro
> catherineasaro.net
> patreon.com/CatherineAsaro
>
>
>
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