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<DIV>Nope, it just did it all by itself. The crazy thing is it wrote over the chapters even though it wouldn't typeset!</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">Ms Sheetal</FONT> <FONT face="Times New Roman">Silal</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman"><A href="http://www.heu.uct.ac.za/">http://www.heu.uct.ac.za</A></FONT></DIV></DIV></DIV><BR><BR>>>> "Ari Stern" <ari@caltech.edu> 8/21/2008 11:48 PM >>><BR>I'm still confused as to how LaTeX wrote *over* your chapters. LaTeX<BR>should just read your *.tex input files, it shouldn't do *anything* to<BR>change them. Could you have accidentally renamed Epidemiology.aux to<BR>Epidemiology.tex at some point?<BR><BR>Cheers,<BR>Ari<BR><BR>On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Sheetal Silal <Sheetal.Silal@uct.ac.za> wrote:<BR>> I thought that would be the case. Sad thing is I made changes since my last backup and it did this to two chapters. Well, gonna have to start the updating! Thanks for all your help!<BR>><BR>> Sheetal<BR>><BR>><BR>>>>> Maarten Sneep <maarten.sneep@xs4all.nl> 08/21/08 11:36 PM >>><BR>><BR>> On 21 aug 2008, at 23:26, Sheetal Silal wrote:<BR>><BR>>> Thesis is the main file.<BR>><BR>> The main file seems to be OK (not a lot that can go wrong with that<BR>> small amount of code).<BR>><BR>>> What you see in the Chapter file 'Epidemiology' is what became of my<BR>>> chapter that was once full of writing and diagrams.<BR>>> That chapter file included the Document settings and all the<BR>>> packages and the \begin and \end{document}. At the point when i<BR>>> first typesetted the thesis.tex file (main file) I didnt know that<BR>>> one wasnt supposed to have the preamble stuff and begin and end<BR>>> document bit. That was when the writing in the chapter<BR>>> 'Epidemiology' became what it looks now in the attachment. So I am<BR>>> trying to get my chapter with all my writing in it back!<BR>><BR>> I have bad news for you, I hope you have a backup. It is hard to<BR>> reconstruct now, but it is possible to overwrite files in LaTeX. How<BR>> it decided to overwrite Epidemiology.tex, I don't know, but that text<BR>> is gone.<BR>><BR>> Maarten<BR>><BR>><BR>> ----------- Please Consult the Following Before Posting -----------<BR>> TeX FAQ: <A href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq">http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq</A><BR>> List Reminders and Etiquette: <A href="http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac">http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac</A>-tex/list/<BR>> List Archive: <A href="http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex">http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex</A>-archives/<BR>> TeX on Mac OS X Website: <A href="http://mactex">http://mactex</A>-wiki.tug.org/<BR>> List Info: <A href="http://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx">http://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx</A>-tex<BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>----------- Please Consult the Following Before Posting -----------<BR>TeX FAQ: <A href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq">http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq</A><BR>List Reminders and Etiquette: <A href="http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac">http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac</A>-tex/list/<BR>List Archive: <A href="http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex">http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex</A>-archives/<BR>TeX on Mac OS X Website: <A href="http://mactex">http://mactex</A>-wiki.tug.org/<BR>List Info: <A href="http://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx">http://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx</A>-tex<BR><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>