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Through the LyX forum, the result that worked was the following


/System/Volumes/Data/Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/lyx2lyx/lyx2lyx -v oldfile.lyx > newfile.lyx

Incidentally, the only Linux allowed on my university campus is at the Center for High Performance Computing, which does not ...

Sorry, I don't have access to an old linux machine. Not at all. I work as a professor for a university that limits what I can use and linux ain't it. If you have a suggestion for a link to another solution it would be very much appreciated as past article drafts I've written are currently ...

Yes, tried old versions of LyX but they won't install. Doubt I have the skills to go down the rabbit hole of trying to make it work. Hopefully there's another solution.

Hi. Got an old file written with LyX 1.6 in 2009 that I want to resurrect but am getting the error message that

*.lyx is from an older version of LyX and the lyx2lyx script failed to convert it.

Using LyX 2.3.6.2 on MacOS Monterey.

Any suggested work arounds? Not finding solutions online, though ...