[texworks] can't find file

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 01/04/2014 4:48 AM, L.A.D. de Boer wrote:
> Dear members,
> I'm new to this list. I searched the archive for "can't find file" but
> did not find my problem.

Given everything you tried, my guess would be that you have misspelled 
the filename. Ubuntu normally uses a case-sensitive file system and 
Windows doesn't, so you need to get the filename exactly right, 
including uppercase versus lowercase.

Duncan Murdoch
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> I just transferred my LaTeX files from my Win-pc with Texworks to my
> Ubuntu-pc with Texworks.
> My main file is /home/lou/TexDocs/Fundamentals/main.tex
> Its first line reads   \input{../hdrBook.tex}
> Compiling stops immediately, error: can't find file. (On the Win-pc
> compiling went fine)
> It concerns the header file /home/lou/TexDocs/hdrBook.tex .
> I also copied the header file to the directory Fundamentals and tried
>     \input{hdrBook.tex}and
>     \input{hdrBook}and even
>     \input{/home/lou/TexDocs/Fundamentals/hdrBook.tex}
> But alwasy the same error: can't find file.
> Desperately I also added a path /home/lou/TexDocs to edit>preferences>
> typesetting>paths .
> What should I do?
>
> Thanks, Lou
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