.lyx/cache

Wolfgang Engelmann engelmann at uni-tuebingen.de
Mon Aug 17 16:03:17 UTC 2020



Am 17.08.20 um 18:00 schrieb Richard Kimberly Heck:
> On 8/17/20 5:05 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:
>>
>>
>> Am 16.08.20 um 16:04 schrieb Richard Kimberly Heck:
>>> On 8/16/20 8:28 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:
>>>> what is the function of .lyx/cache? I did not find infos in the help
>>>> file. Seems to contain figures such as pdf, eps, png and they are all
>>>> coded with 10 digit numbers.
>>>
>>> It saves the conversions of images for loading into LyX itself. If you
>>> delete the directory, they will be re-generated as required.
>>>
>>> Riki
>>>
>>>
>> Thanks, Riki.
>> Suppose I change some of the images with smaller ones, would the large
>> ones still remain in the cache?
> 
> I think so, but I am not sure.
> 
> 
>> I guess the images of all the used lyx files are in this cache, are they?
> 
> Anything that gets converted is cached here. I am not sure if that
> includes math previews.
> 
> Riki
> 
> 
Thanks, Riki,
so I think if I empty the cache it will be newly created by the current 
lyx document.
Wolfgang


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