.lyx/cache

Richard Kimberly Heck rikiheck at lyx.org
Mon Aug 17 16:26:42 UTC 2020


On 8/17/20 12:03 PM, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:
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>
> 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.

Yes.




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