[texworks] Never mind

[Paul A Norman]

Easy to do Roger :-)

Disappearances may be due to the lifecycle of auxiliary file generation
during a failed document compile?

More generally though: for locating files that may still have copies
hanging around (somehow still existing, moved, or copied behind the
scenes), here is a powerful utility providing information from a wider
scope. (There are recommendations for app alternatives, including for other
OSes) ...

"Everything, is described as '"Everything" – its an administrative tool
that locates files and folders by filename *instantly* for Windows' and is
a leading File Search utility in the file management category.

"There are more than 50 alternatives to Everything for a variety of
platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and PortableApps.com. The
best alternative is Listary, which is free. Other great apps like
Everything are FSearch, Agent Ransack, Recoll and DocFetcher.
..."

https://alternativeto.net/software/everything/

"Everything" is very quick and useful, and much better and faster than
Window's native "search", it operates by doing something that surprisingly
Windows could, but apparently doesn't do itself, with its own existing file
management system referencing!

You can prime it with a root/top file path, leave a space and add type
patterns for desired file names.

Also useful for finding duplicates (like .DLLs etc :-)

Kind regards,
Paul

On Thursday, 30 June 2022, rogercooke--- via texworks <texworks at tug.org>
wrote:
> I managed to find the error.  I had typed \( instead of |( in an index
command.
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> But I’m still puzzled as to the disappearance of the .ilg and .ind
files.  They are still present on several earlier documents that I wrote
recently.  Only on this latest one have they vanished irretrievably.
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> From: rogercooke at burlingtontelecom.net <rogercooke at burlingtontelecom.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2022 4:23 PM
> To: 'texworks at tug.org' <texworks at tug.org>
> Subject: Can't find index file
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> I’m getting an error message telling me there’s a missing $ in my file
name.ind.  But I can’t find any such file, and when I click on the link to
it in the .log file, I get a message that no such file exists.  I’ve tried
going into DOS (how desperate a person can be!), and it still doesn’t show
up anywhere.  All the documents I’ve done previously have a file in the
same directory as the master file called name.ind.  This is the first time
I’ve been unable to locate it even when searching for “all documents”.  I’m
using the mode PDFLatex+MakeIndex+BibTeX to process this file.  I’ve been
working on this file for some weeks, and the indices subject.ind and
name.ind have always printed out correctly up to now.
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> ----- configuration info -----
> TeXworks version : 0.6.2r.7ecce17 (MiKTeX 2.9.6730 64-bit)
> Install location : C:/Users/rlcooke/AppData/Local/Programs/MiKTeX
2.9/miktex/bin/x64/miktex-texworks.exe
> Library path     : C:/Users/rlcooke/AppData/Local/MiKTeX/2.9/TeXworks/0.6\
> pdfTeX location  : C:/Users/rlcooke/AppData/Local/Programs/MiKTeX
2.9/miktex/bin/x64/pdftex.exe
> Operating system : Windows 10 Pro, 64-bit, build 19043
> Qt version       : 5.9.2 (build) / 5.9.2 (runtime)
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