Question about Document format failure

[raymond lam]

Hi,
I am using the latest version of Lyx and my uni pc is in version 2.0.3.
When I am trying to open the Lyx documen I created from my laptop in my
university pc. a error pop out an said:
Document format failure:

C:\Users\myusername\AppData\Local\Temp\lyx_tmpdir.Hp4252
\Buffer_convertLyxFormat.em4252 is not a readable LyX document.

Is there anything I can do to solve this problem?
Thank a lot,
Weng Lam

[Scott Kostyshak]

Hi,
I am using the latest version of Lyx and my uni pc is in version 2.0.3. When
I am trying to open the Lyx documen I created from my laptop in my
C:\Users\myusername\AppData\Local\Temp\lyx_tmpdir.Hp4252
\Buffer_convertLyxFormat.em4252 is not a readable LyX document.
Is there anything I can do to solve this problem?
Thank a lot,
Weng Lam

Hi Raymond,

It's common to ask your Uni's administrators to upgrade the LyX
version there. 2.0.3 is quite old and if they are responsible they
should have an easy way of doing it.

Failing that, you either use 2.0.8.1 on your laptop (this is what I
would personally do if I used both computers frequently) or you can
use 2.1.x and export to 2.0.x (file > export) whenever you want to use
the file on the uni computer.

Best,

Scott

[Richard Heck]

Post by raymond lam
Hi,
I am using the latest version of Lyx and my uni pc is in version
2.0.3. When I am trying to open the Lyx documen I created from my
C:\Users\myusername\AppData\Local\Temp\lyx_tmpdir.Hp4252
\Buffer_convertLyxFormat.em4252 is not a readable LyX document.
Is there anything I can do to solve this problem?

You need to export the document to the 2.0.x format: File> Export>
2.0.x. LyX 2.0.3 cannot read 2.1.x documents. The 2.1.x format did not
exist when 2.0.3 was released!

Richard