[OS X TeX] Disaster

Mon Aug 24 16:52:02 EDT 2015

"It is perhaps worth disabling synchronisation while you are processing LaTeX - to prevent Dropbox from updating its records with every minor change to the auxiliary files, as at least one other poster has mentioned."
Yeah, but that becomes tedious after a while to do, especially if you only apply small changes for re-compilation.
Markus

> From: sjs at essex.ac.uk
> To: macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu
> Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 08:20:05 +0000
> Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Disaster
> 
> Me too. I have edited and authored three books over the last 3 years
> all using LaTeX and all using Dropbox as the master directory,
> with collaborators sharing access to the same directory on Dropbox.
> We never had any problems with files getting corrupted. Rarely, we
> had to access the file history on the Dropbox website to resolve a
> clash where two of us had edited the same file.
> 
> The only difference I can see with the original poster’s situation
> is that we were not all using the same operating system. Mine is
> Mac OS X, one used Linux and the other I am not sure.
> 
> It is perhaps worth disabling synchronisation while you are processing
> LaTeX - to prevent Dropbox from updating its records with every minor
> change to the auxiliary files, as at least one other poster has mentioned.
> 
> Steve Sangwine
> University of Essex, UK
> 
> > Le 23 août 2015 à 21:17, David Goldenberg <goldenberg at biology.utah.edu> a écrit :
> > 
> > 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
> >> Message-ID: <1DBCFE57-74D8-41C4-9494-B187A6CE3EA2 at me.com>
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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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