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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>I would personally highly recommend Overleaf for (La)TeX thesis/essays. Dropbox is known to not work very well for that purpose.<div><br></div><div>Best Regards,</div><div>Markus<br><br><div>> From: gratzer@me.com<br>> Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2015 12:23:02 -0400<br>> To: macosx-tex@email.esm.psu.edu<br>> Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Disaster<br>> <br>> Dick,<br>> <br>> This was traumatic, but problems solved.<br>> <br>> On the MacBook Air, somehow it did not read in the definition of \MathOrText,<br>> causing hundreds of mistakes. I eliminated all, this problem is fixed.<br>> <br>> Independently, the source file was corrupted, a big chunk replicated itself.<br>> I have never seen anything like this before.<br>> <br>> Coincidence, but who believes in coincidences? Two computers, same time.<br>> <br>> > Do you use automatic saving?<br>> <br>> I do not know. Is this something I set?<br>> <br>> I have used Dropbox for many years, have never had problems before. <br>> It’s great for safety and for synchronizing work on more than one computer.<br>> <br>> Dropbox also takes care of my photos, 237 GB-s!<br>> <br>> Thanks for all the help offered.<br>> <br>> George<br>> <br>> <br>> > On Aug 22, 2015, at 11:33 AM, Richard Koch <koch@uoregon.edu> wrote:<br>> > <br>> > George,<br>> > <br>> > Do you use automatic saving?<br>> > Try retreating to a previous version of your source. I’d be tempted to<br>> > put that previous version in a blank folder, so aux and other temporary files have<br>> > to be recreated.<br>> > <br>> > I don’t have direct knowledge of Dropbox-TeX interaction, but using two pieces<br>> > of third party software, each of which can save at any moment behind your back,<br>> > feels sort of scary.<br>> > <br>> > Dick Koch<br>> > <br>> > <br>> > <br>> > ----------- Please Consult the Following Before Posting -----------<br>> > TeX FAQ: http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq<br>> > List Reminders and Etiquette: https://www.esm.psu.edu/~gray/tex/<br>> > List Archives: http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.macosx<br>> > https://email.esm.psu.edu/pipermail/macosx-tex/<br>> > TeX on Mac OS X Website: http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/<br>> > List Info: https://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex<br>> <br>> <br>> ----------- Please Consult the Following Before Posting -----------<br>> TeX FAQ: http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq<br>> List Reminders and Etiquette: https://www.esm.psu.edu/~gray/tex/<br>> List Archives: http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.macosx<br>> https://email.esm.psu.edu/pipermail/macosx-tex/<br>> TeX on Mac OS X Website: http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/<br>> List Info: https://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex<br></div></div> </div></body>
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