Please help me

[Christopher Menzel]

> On Jun 11, 2024, at 3:55 PM, Anders Ekberg via lyx-users <lyx-users at lists.lyx.org> wrote:
> 
>> 11 juni 2024 kl. 15:51 skrev Christopher Menzel <chris.menzel at gmail.com>:
>> 
>>> I have spent hours trying to figure out how one might be able to run BOTH LyX 2.4 and LyX 2.3.8 on the same Mac computer with a Silicon chip and Mac OS 14.5. No luck finding any useful information about this issue.
>>> Is this possible?
>> 
>> ...
>> If all you want to do is install both versions of LyX, then, assuming you currently have LyX 2.3.8 installed, just open the Applications folder on your machine and rename LyX.app to “LyX 2.3.8.app” and then install LyX 2.4. I think the only issue is that LyX 2.3.8 will look in ~/Library/Application Support/LyX-2.3 for its support files (personal bind files, personal spellcheck files, etc) and LyX 2.4 will look in ~/Library/Application Support/LyX-2.4 so those could get out of sync. (You could probably create symlinks in your LyX-2.3 folder to keep things in sync but you can kick that can down the road for now.)
> 
> I have used a setup like that for over a year with no problem. No Symlinks or anything, just calling one app LyX, and the other LyX-23 (or whatever).

You’d need symlinks if you wanted to keep user files (e.g., the personal spelling dictionary files pwl_english.dict) for LyX 2.3.x and LyX 2.4.y in sync, as they are in separate directories under ~/Library/Application Support.

-chris

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