Permanence of strange .tex file

[Stephan Witt]

Am 27.08.2021 um 22:51 schrieb Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>:
> 
> On Fri, 27 Aug 2021, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
> 
>> Do you by any chance have instant preview turned on in Tools > Preferences > Look & Feel > Display.
> 
> Paul,
> 
> Huh! It was turned on, but I've no recollection of ever doing this. And, as
> I wrote, it's never before been an issue. So I turned it off.
> 
>> The presence of "preview" in the file name suggests to me that LyX might
>> have been compiling something for instant preview.
> 
> Could be. I opened LyX, looked in preferences (but not Display), exited,
> then found Display and turned off instant preview. There were to *.tex files
> using the CPUs after I exited the second time. Killed both processes.
> 
>> As far as the undead process, if LyX spawns a latex / pdflatex / whatever
>> process to compile something and then you kill LyX, the child process does
>> not get killed automatically (at least in my experience). You have to nuke
>> it manually. I would expect the lyxpreviewN17596.tex file to be stashed in
>> the LyX temporary directory for the parent document.
> 
> If yesterday's files were in /tmp find should have found them. It didn’t.

Hi Rich,

on quit LyX removes it’s temporary files and directories. This doesn’t happen 
on sudden death of LyX. The question now is: is /tmp the location for temporary 
files and directories?

On MacOS it’s not /tmp if you don’t set the path explicitly to /tmp.

Stephan

> 
> Anyway, however the instant preview became active it's now off. Must be
> pandemic related, eh? :-)
> 
> Stay well,
> 
> Rich
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