<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Interesting.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">GG</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 22, 2015, at 1:45 PM, Markus Klyver <<a href="mailto:markusklyver@hotmail.com" class="">markusklyver@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<div class="hmmessage"><div dir="ltr" class="">I would personally highly recommend Overleaf for (La)TeX thesis/essays. Dropbox is known to not work very well for that purpose.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best Regards,</div><div class="">Markus<br class=""><br class=""><div class="">> From: <a href="mailto:gratzer@me.com" class="">gratzer@me.com</a><br class="">> Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2015 12:23:02 -0400<br class="">> To: <a href="mailto:macosx-tex@email.esm.psu.edu" class="">macosx-tex@email.esm.psu.edu</a><br class="">> Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Disaster<br class="">> <br class="">> Dick,<br class="">> <br class="">> This was traumatic, but problems solved.<br class="">> <br class="">> On the MacBook Air, somehow it did not read in the definition of \MathOrText,<br class="">> causing hundreds of mistakes. I eliminated all, this problem is fixed.<br class="">> <br class="">> Independently, the source file was corrupted, a big chunk replicated itself.<br class="">> I have never seen anything like this before.<br class="">> <br class="">> Coincidence, but who believes in coincidences? Two computers, same time.<br class="">> <br class="">> > Do you use automatic saving?<br class="">> <br class="">> I do not know. Is this something I set?<br class="">> <br class="">> I have used Dropbox for many years, have never had problems before. <br class="">> It’s great for safety and for synchronizing work on more than one computer.<br class="">> <br class="">> Dropbox also takes care of my photos, 237 GB-s!<br class="">> <br class="">> Thanks for all the help offered.<br class="">> <br class="">> George<br class="">> <br class="">> <br class="">> > On Aug 22, 2015, at 11:33 AM, Richard Koch <<a href="mailto:koch@uoregon.edu" class="">koch@uoregon.edu</a>> wrote:<br class="">> > <br class="">> > George,<br class="">> > <br class="">> > Do you use automatic saving?<br class="">> > Try retreating to a previous version of your source. I’d be tempted to<br class="">> > put that previous version in a blank folder, so aux and other temporary files have<br class="">> > to be recreated.<br class="">> > <br class="">> > I don’t have direct knowledge of Dropbox-TeX interaction, but using two pieces<br class="">> > of third party software, each of which can save at any moment behind your back,<br class="">> > feels sort of scary.<br class="">> > <br class="">> > Dick Koch<br class="">> > <br class="">> > <br class="">> > <br class="">> > ----------- Please Consult the Following Before Posting -----------<br class="">> > TeX FAQ: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq" class="">http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq</a><br class="">> > List Reminders and Etiquette: <a href="https://www.esm.psu.edu/~gray/tex/" class="">https://www.esm.psu.edu/~gray/tex/</a><br class="">> > List Archives: <a href="http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.macosx" class="">http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.macosx</a><br class="">> > <a href="https://email.esm.psu.edu/pipermail/macosx-tex/" class="">https://email.esm.psu.edu/pipermail/macosx-tex/</a><br class="">> > TeX on Mac OS X Website: <a href="http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/" class="">http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/</a><br class="">> > List Info: <a href="https://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex" class="">https://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex</a><br class="">> <br class="">> <br class="">> ----------- Please Consult the Following Before Posting -----------<br class="">> TeX FAQ: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq" class="">http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq</a><br class="">> List Reminders and Etiquette: <a href="https://www.esm.psu.edu/~gray/tex/" class="">https://www.esm.psu.edu/~gray/tex/</a><br class="">> List Archives: <a href="http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.macosx" class="">http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.macosx</a><br class="">> <a href="https://email.esm.psu.edu/pipermail/macosx-tex/" class="">https://email.esm.psu.edu/pipermail/macosx-tex/</a><br class="">> TeX on Mac OS X Website: <a href="http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/" class="">http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/</a><br class="">> List Info: <a href="https://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex" class="">https://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex</a><br class=""></div></div> </div></div>
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