[OS X TeX] can't write on log file error

[Jeffrey Roland]

Pete,

The path name of one of the documents exhibiting the behavior I  
described is

~ 2010$ /Users/2010/Desktop/2010\ SS\ 2006/PrelimSS06.tex

and the new account username is '2010'.

By 'imported' I meant that the document was originally written in one  
account and then transferred into this new account via the drop box  
for the new account.

Thanks,

Jeff


On Jun 23, 2006, at 4:58 PM, Peter Dyballa wrote:

>
> Am 23.06.2006 um 23:06 schrieb Jeffrey Roland:
>
>> I'm trying to use TeXShop on a newly created user account on my G4  
>> Powerbook running 10.4.6, and I'm having a problem.  Every time I  
>> try to typeset a LaTeX document imported from another user account  
>> I get a message that says "I can't write on the file 'xxx.log',"  
>> where 'xxx' is the document name.  This happens even if I cut and  
>> paste the content of an imported document into a new document.  If  
>> I start with a document created entirely in the new user account,  
>> typesetting goes off without a hitch.
>
> Can you give us the path names of the TeX files you mention and the  
> new user's name? You can drag the icon from TeXShop's window onto  
> Terminal and it gets "converted" into the path name, which you then  
> can copy into Mail.
>
> I cannot understand whether the new user is trying to run TeX on an  
> elder user's file, which should definitely fail, or something  
> different is happening. "Imported" can have a few meanings, a path  
> name only one.
>
> --
> Greetings
>
>   Pete
>
> "Don't just do something, sit there."
>
>



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