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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>I have had some troubles with corrupted files with Dropbox. It seems like Dropbox like to mess things up when you compile stuff. It really don't like that.<div><br></div><div>Best Regards,</div><div>Markus<br><br><div>> From: goldenberg@biology.utah.edu<br>> Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2015 14:17:19 -0600<br>> To: macosx-tex@email.esm.psu.edu<br>> Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Disaster<br>> <br>> 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?<br>> <br>> David<br>> <br>> > <br>> > Message: 1<br>> > Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2015 11:21:13 -0400<br>> > From: George Gratzer <gratzer@me.com><br>> > To: TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List <macosx-tex@email.esm.psu.edu><br>> > Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Disaster<br>> > Message-ID: <1DBCFE57-74D8-41C4-9494-B187A6CE3EA2@me.com><br>> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"<br>> > <br>> > Interesting.<br>> > <br>> > GG<br>> > <br>> > <br>> >> On Aug 22, 2015, at 1:45 PM, Markus Klyver <markusklyver@hotmail.com> wrote:<br>> >> <br>> >> I would personally highly recommend Overleaf for (La)TeX thesis/essays. Dropbox is known to not work very well for that purpose.<br>> >> <br>> >> Best Regards,<br>> >> Markus<br>> >> <br>> >>> 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>> <br>> --<br>> Department of Biology<br>> University of Utah<br>> 257 South 1400 East<br>> Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0840<br>> <br>> Telephone: (801) 581-3885<br>> Fax: (801) 581-2174<br>> <br>> E-mail: goldenberg@biology.utah.edu<br>> Lab web page: http://bioweb.biology.utah.edu/goldenberg<br>> <br>> <br>> <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></div></div> </div></body>
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