[OS X TeX] MacTeX problem with Beamer in Sonoma

[Herbert Schulz]

> On May 31, 2024, at 5:32 PM, Kannan Moudgalya <kannan at iitb.ac.in> wrote:
> 
> On 31/05/24 11:02 pm, Herbert Schulz via MacOSX-TeX wrote:
>> Howdy,
>> 
>> Notice that the path to the files is /Users/kannan/Library/texmf/tex/latex/... so it is using files from your personal texmf folder rather than the one from your distribution. That file is probably out of date so please remove it.
>> 
>> Good Luck,
>> 
>> Herb Schulz
>> herbs2 at mac.com
>> 
>> 
> Hi,
> That worked like a charm.  Thank you very much.  I tried everything else earlier, and spent quite a bit of time, trying to figure out, but couldn't.
> Perhaps this can be mentioned in a read me file - to remove the personal files.  This will especially be useful to people who have been using LaTeX for many years, and have possible gone senile :)
> Regards,
> Kannan

Howdy,

The real answer is to never put `updated' packages in your personal tree. It's meant for personal packages, etc., that are not part of TeX-Live. Any time I put something from CTAN in that tree I place it in a special directory that I check when I update TeX-Live to make sure it hasn't been added to TeX-Live.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
herbs2 at mac.com