Batch convert LyX files that require `needauth` action

[Steven Paulson]

Cannot agree more. LyX is such a nice and powerful piece of software and I
really hope automation with LyX can be even easier, but I do appreciate
your workaround. I feel the `-userdir` argument opens up so many
possibilities for me. Thanks again.

Best regards,
Yuwen

On Sat, Oct 1, 2022 at 6:00 PM Scott Kostyshak <skostysh at lyx.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 01, 2022 at 04:48:19PM -0400, Steven Paulson wrote:
> > Hi Scott,
> >
> > Genius workaround! Following your suggestion, I created a different user
> > directory where I added an additional line `\use_converter_needauth
> false`
> > to the preference file. Running `lyx` with the `-userdir` argument
> pointing
> > toward the new user directory perfectly solved the problem. Thank you so
> > much. I really appreciate your help.
>
> Great! I'm glad it worked for you. I do think there are things we can do
> to make this easier for users since I think this is a common workflow. But
> at the moment no one is working on this.
>
> Best,
> Scott
>
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