[OS X TeX] problem with running project root file

[Maarten Sneep]

On 21 aug 2008, at 23:26, Sheetal Silal wrote:

> Thesis is the main file.

The main file seems to be OK (not a lot that can go wrong with that  
small amount of code).

> What you see in the Chapter file 'Epidemiology' is what became of my  
> chapter that was once full of writing and diagrams.
> That chapter file included the Document settings and all the  
> packages and the \begin and \end{document}. At the point when i  
> first typesetted the thesis.tex file (main file) I didnt know that  
> one wasnt supposed to have the preamble stuff and begin and end  
> document bit.  That was when the writing in the chapter  
> 'Epidemiology' became what it looks now in the attachment. So I am  
> trying to get my chapter with all my writing in it back!

I have bad news for you, I hope you have a backup. It is hard to  
reconstruct now, but it is possible to overwrite files in LaTeX. How  
it decided to overwrite Epidemiology.tex, I don't know, but that text  
is gone.

Maarten