[OS X TeX] Need help migrating machines

[Chris Goedde]

On Jan 29, 2010, at 2:46 PM, Herbert Schulz wrote:

> 
> On Jan 29, 2010, at 2:09 PM, Chris Goedde wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I'm migrating from an old machine to a new 27" iMac (woot!) and I need some help. My old machine was running MacTeX 2007, but I don't think that matters. Here's what I've done:
>> 
>> (a) Installed MacTeX 2009.
>> (b) Copied over my old user hierarchy to my new machine. I did this by hand because I partition my drive so my home folder sits on a separate partition (/Volume/Files/~). I can log in and it seems to work.
>> 
>> Here's the problem. I can run TeX, but it doesn't see my private TeX hierachy, ~/Library/texmf/... What's the magic incantation to update TeX's path list?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Chris
> 
> Howdy,
> 
> I'm not sure I understand what you've done in part (b) but what do
> 
> echo $HOME
> 
> and
> 
> kpsepath tex
> 
> return?

In part (b) I just copied my home folder from the old machine to the second partition on my new machine, then pointed my account to use that as the home folder.

echo $HOME returns /Volumes/Files/goedde as it should

The output from "kpsepath tex" is shown below. I think it's correct.

env | egrep -i 'TeX|MF' returns:

__CF_USER_TEXT_ENCODING=0x1F8:0:0
PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/texbin:/usr/X11/bin

More investigation shows that tex works from the command line but not from within TeXShop. From the command line files are found correctly inside /Volumes/Files/goedde/Library/texmf/tex/latex/ as they should be. But texing from within TeXShop fails with a file not found error for those same files. I'm not sure how that can be, any suggestions?

Chris

Output from "kpsepath tex":

.:/Volumes/Files/goedde/.texlive2009/texmf-config/tex/kpsewhich//:/Volumes/Files/goedde/.texlive2009/texmf-var/tex/kpsewhich//:/Volumes/Files/goedde/Library/texmf/tex/kpsewhich//:!!/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-config/tex/kpsewhich//:!!/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-var/tex/kpsewhich//:!!/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf/tex/kpsewhich//:!!/usr/local/texlive/2009/../texmf-local/tex/kpsewhich//:!!/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/tex/kpsewhich//:/Volumes/Files/goedde/.texlive2009/texmf-config/tex/generic//:/Volumes/Files/goedde/.texlive2009/texmf-var/tex/generic//:/Volumes/Files/goedde/Library/texmf/tex/generic//:!!/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-config/tex/generic//:!!/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-var/tex/generic//:!!/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf/tex/generic//:!!/usr/local/texlive/2009/../texmf-local/tex/generic//:!!/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/tex/generic//:/Volumes/Files/goedde/.texlive2009/texmf-config/tex///:/Volumes/Files/goedde/.texlive2009/texmf-var/tex///:/Volumes/Files/goedde/Library/texmf/tex///:!!/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-config/tex///:!!/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-var/tex///:!!/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf/tex///:!!/usr/local/texlive/2009/../texmf-local/tex///:!!/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/tex///