[OS X TeX] foo.synctex.gz(busy)

[Alain Schremmer]

On Sep 5, 2012, at 10:08 AM, Herbert Schulz wrote:

>
> On Sep 5, 2012, at 9:01 AM, Alain Schremmer  
> <schremmer.alain at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> This post is just a matter of curiosity:
>>
>>
>> As I compiled
>> <161UserManualV2-4.tex>
>>
>>
>> I got the error:
>>
>> Argument of \contentsline has an extra }.
>> <inserted text>
>>               \par
>> l.3 \contentsline
>>                 {section}{What This Means To You}{2}
>> ?
>> Process aborted
>>
>> and the file UserManualV2-5.synctex was ... busy:
>>
>> <161UserManualV2-4.synctex.gz(busy)>
>>
>>
>> Here are the other auxiliary files
>> < 
>> 161UserManualV2 
>> -4 
>> .aux 
>> > 
>> < 
>> 161UserManualV2 
>> -4 
>> .pdf 
>> > 
>> < 
>> 161UserManualV2 
>> -4 
>> .idx 
>> > 
>> <161UserManualV2-4.out><161UserManualV2-4.ptc><161UserManualV2-4.log>
>>
>> Removing all auxiliary files and recompiling worked.
>>
>> All the above files are in a folder called 161UserManual-Fall2012 and
>>
>> <Preamble.sty>
>>
>>
>> is in a folder called StyleSheets with both folders in a single  
>> folder called RAFv5-2.
>>
>> Baffled regards.
>> --schremmer
>
> Howdy,
>
> Did you have an error on a previous run?

No, it came out of the clear blue sky.

> This sounds like a problem with a bad aux file.

No, deleting the aux file was the first thing I tried.

> The usual fix is just what you did; clean up all the old files and  
> start over. The synctex file was busy because the processing was  
> aborted and that is not a problem.

I agree but this "busy" is what made me curious. Oh well ...

Grateful regards
--schremmer