<div dir="ltr">Catherine,<div><br></div><div>Has something recently been changed on your computer? Perhaps a MacOS update? Which version of MacOS are you running?</div><div><br></div><div>To confirm your collection of files has the content you expect (and not empty), can you open a terminal window, move to one of the folders/directories (with an appropriate "cd" command) in question and "cat" one of the .tex files? This should at the very least provide some reassurance if you can see the content.</div><div><br></div><div>It sounds like you are experiencing some type of Unix-style permissions problem ... which might be related to a MacOS update you recently performed?</div><div><br></div><div>By the way, once you get this problem resolved, you should investigate using TimeMachine or some other similar backup mechanism to protect against disasters.</div><div><br></div><div>Bill</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Apr 10, 2022 at 11:15 AM Catherine Asaro <<a href="mailto:asaro@pobox.com">asaro@pobox.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space">Sorry, part of my email got deleted. #3 should have said<div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space">3. I closed the file I was working on and tried to reopen it and retry typeset. When I did that, I got a file with nothing in it but the following message:<br></div></blockquote><br></div><div><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space">This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592653-2.6-1.40.22 (TeX Live 2021) (preloaded format=pdflatex)<br> restricted \write18 enabled.<br>entering extended mode<br>(./Problem Set for Kathryn -- Vietas and proof.tex/Library/TeX/texbin/pdflatex: getcwd: Operation not permitted<br></div></div><div><br></div><div>My apologies for the confusion.</div><div><br><div>
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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Apr 10, 2022, at 12:08 PM, Catherine Asaro <<a href="mailto:asaro@pobox.com" target="_blank">asaro@pobox.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space">I hope someone can help me with a possible TeX disaster. I have several decades worth of tex documents I've been developing for my students over the years, hundreds of problems set and so on. I started a new do today, and when I tried to typeset it using the LaTex button, I received a message that said it was restricted. Retrying it did no good. I kept receiving the following message:<br><br>This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592653-2.6-1.40.22 (TeX Live 2021) (preloaded format=pdflatex)<br> restricted \write18 enabled.<br>entering extended mode<br>(./Problem Set for Kathryn -- Vietas and proof.tex/Library/TeX/texbin/pdflatex: getcwd: Operation not permitted<br><br>So I did the following:<br><br>1. Opened old files that have worked for decades and hit the latex message. That didn't work because the files appear to be empty. ALL OF THEM. POtentially decades worth of work appears to have disappeared, hundreds of documents. I'm praying this isn't the case, that for some reason I just can't access them. It told me the file was locked. I tried to unlock it and it said I didn't have permission. These are files that I've been using and develolping for many, many years. I didn't try to open many of them, for fear that the process of trying to open them might be destroying the information.<br><br>2. I tried to make a new file. When I hit the typeset button, I received the following message:<br><br>This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592653-2.6-1.40.22 (TeX Live 2021) (preloaded format=pdflatex)<br> restricted \write18 enabled.<br>entering extended mode<br>(./Test.tex/Library/TeX/texbin/pdflatex: getcwd: Operation not permitted<br><br>3. I closed the file I was working on and tried to reopen it and retry typset. When I did that, I got a file with nothing in it but the following message:<br><br>Can someone help me?<div><br></div><div>This is the info it gives me for the version of TexShop that I use:<br><br><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px">TeXShop Version 3.04 (3.04)<br>TeXShip is produced under the GPL public license. Coordination by</blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><br>Rochard Koch<br><br></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px">Code by [long list of coders]<br><br></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px">Open Source Framewords and Classes<br><br></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px">NoodleLineNumberMarker</blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px">NoodleLineNumberView</blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px">Cocoa classes from Paul Kim.</blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px">Copyright (c) 2008 Noodlesoft, LLC</blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px">All right reserved.</blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><a href="http://www.noodlesoft.com/blog/" target="_blank">http://www.noodlesoft.com/blog/</a>.</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><br>Warranty statement.<br><br></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px">OgreKit, a Find Panel Framework, <br><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>supporting regular expressions. <br><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>The framework is by Isao Sonobe. <br><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Released under the BSD license. <br><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><a href="http://www8.ocn.ne.jp/~sonoisa/OgreKit/" target="_blank">http://www8.ocn.ne.jp/~sonoisa/OgreKit/</a>.</blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><br>Sparkle, a Software Update Framework <br><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>by Andy Matuschak. The framework is <br><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Released under MIT/X/ Expat License. <br><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><a href="http://sparkle.andymatuschak.org/" target="_blank">http://sparkle.andymatuschak.org/</a>. </blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><br>Localization by many people (it gives a list)<br><br></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px">Contact Information:</blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><br></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Richard Koch<br> Mathematics Department<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> <br></span> University of Oregon<br> Eugene, Oregon 97403 <br><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><a href="mailto:koch@math.uoregon.edu" target="_blank">koch@math.uoregon.edu</a></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><br></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px">Copyright 2001-2011 Richard Koch <a href="http://www.texshop.org/" target="_blank">http://www.texshop.org</a></blockquote><br>====<br><br><br><div>Best regards,<br>Catherine Asaro<br><a href="http://catherineasaro.net/" target="_blank">catherineasaro.net</a><br><a href="http://patreon.com/CatherineAsaro" target="_blank">patreon.com/CatherineAsaro</a><br></div><br><br></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div>----------- Please Consult the Following Before Posting -----------<br>
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