[OS X TeX] Disaster

[George Gratzer]

I think I have come to the conclusion that you are right. My troubles have all been diagnosed
and have nothing to do with Dropbox.

I have been using Dropbox to coordinate between my iMac and MacBook Air, and also for instant backup.

GG

> On Aug 23, 2015, at 4:17 PM, David Goldenberg <goldenberg at biology.utah.edu> wrote:
> 
> I have used Dropbox extensively for the past three years, for LaTeX and other things, and have never had any trouble with it.  Maybe I have just been lucky?
> 
> David
> 
>> 
>> Message: 1
>> Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2015 11:21:13 -0400
>> From: George Gratzer <gratzer at me.com>
>> To: TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List <macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu>
>> Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Disaster
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>> 
>> Interesting.
>> 
>> GG
>> 
>> 
>>> On Aug 22, 2015, at 1:45 PM, Markus Klyver <markusklyver at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I would personally highly recommend Overleaf for (La)TeX thesis/essays. Dropbox is known to not work very well for that purpose.
>>> 
>>> Best Regards,
>>> Markus
>>> 
>>>> From: gratzer at me.com
>>>> Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2015 12:23:02 -0400
>>>> To: macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu
>>>> Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Disaster
>>>> 
>>>> Dick,
>>>> 
>>>> This was traumatic, but problems solved.
>>>> 
>>>> On the MacBook Air, somehow it did not read in the definition of \MathOrText,
>>>> causing hundreds of mistakes. I eliminated all, this problem is fixed.
>>>> 
>>>> Independently, the source file was corrupted, a big chunk replicated itself.
>>>> I have never seen anything like this before.
>>>> 
>>>> Coincidence, but who believes in coincidences? Two computers, same time.
>>>> 
>>>>> Do you use automatic saving?
>>>> 
>>>> I do not know. Is this something I set?
>>>> 
>>>> I have used Dropbox for many years, have never had problems before. 
>>>> It?s great for safety and for synchronizing work on more than one computer.
>>>> 
>>>> Dropbox also takes care of my photos, 237 GB-s!
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks for all the help offered.
>>>> 
>>>> George
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> On Aug 22, 2015, at 11:33 AM, Richard Koch <koch at uoregon.edu> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> George,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Do you use automatic saving?
>>>>> Try retreating to a previous version of your source. I?d be tempted to
>>>>> put that previous version in a blank folder, so aux and other temporary files have
>>>>> to be recreated.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I don?t have direct knowledge of Dropbox-TeX interaction, but using two pieces
>>>>> of third party software, each of which can save at any moment behind your back,
>>>>> feels sort of scary.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Dick Koch
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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