[OS X TeX] Multiple synctex.gz files

[R Martinez]

Herb,

All the files are in the same directory: x.aux, x.log, x.nav, x.toc, x.out, x.snm, x.tex, x.pdf. The synctex.gz files appear one at a time and accumulate. I'm not sure whether it's random. I know that the extra files appeared again after I deleted several.

I ran 

ls -alf *.gz

And here is the result.

-rw-r--r--  1 RaulMart  staff  58301 Jun 11 21:58 irrationalNumbers.synctex.gz

Thanks for your help.

Raul


On Jun 15, 2013, at 6:25 AM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:

> 
> On Jun 15, 2013, at 8:18 AM, R Martinez <rm.tech at mac.com> wrote:
> 
>> Herb,
>> 
>> The files just showed up unannounced in my directory. I did no copying or manipulated the files in any way. 
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Raúl
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone 4S
>> 
>> On Jun 15, 2013, at 5:14 AM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> On Jun 15, 2013, at 3:46 AM, R Martinez <rm.tech at mac.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> All,
>>>> 
>>>> Here's a sample of what I've been calling "multiple synctex files."
>>>> 
>>>> They are all for the same .tex document (titled "irrationalNumbers"), which is a relatively plain-vanilla beamer class document.
>>>> 
>>>> In this example, the files listed below appear in the same folder along with all the aux files, the .tex file, and the output .pdf file.
>>>> 
>>>> irrationalNumbers.synctex (from Rauls-macbook-pro - 3).gz
>>>> irrationalNumbers.synctex (from Rauls-macbook-pro).gz
>>>> irrationalNumbers.synctex.gz
>>>> 
>>>> This example lists two extra synctex files each with the tag "(from Rauls-macbook-pro)"; the latter is the name of my MacBook Pro as you might guess. The files names are exactly as they appear on the list of aux files. [I mention this to avoid people thinking that I added the parenthetical identifier "(from ...)" for the purpose of this discussion.] Although I show only two "extra" files here, I've had as many as six. They appear to be inoffensive: deleting them has no effect on typesetting or editing with TS 3.18.
>>>> 
>>>> I'm puzzled by the fact that these files appear at all because that had not been the case previously.
>>>> 
>>>> Raul Martinez
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Howdy,
>>> 
>>> Do all of these files appear at once? Have the files been copied from another location (I've seen an option to keep both files when I copy a file to a location where a file with that name already exists)?
>>> 
>>> Good Luck,
>>> 
>>> Herb Schulz
>>> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
> 
> 
> Howdy,
> 
> Does it continue to happen? Is it random (i.e., it happens sometimes but not other times)? Are there other files, e.g., irrationalNumbers.aux, where this happens? What are the permissions on those files? (In Terminal change directory [cd] to the directory with the files, run the
> 
> ls -alf *.gz
> 
> command and let us know the output.) And do they all appear at once or do they accumulate over time? Does this only happen in certain folders?
> 
> Good Luck,
> 
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
> 
> 
> 
> 
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