General ⇒ Problem with Pdflatex on Mac

[michaela]

I am new to Latex, and have been using it without any problems for the past week.
This morning when I tried to typeset something this message came up

The program "pdflatex" was not found.
Searched in directories:
/usr/bin
/bin
/usr/sbin
/sbin
/usr/local/bin
Check configuration of the pdfLaTeX tool and path settings in the Preferences dialog.

I haven't changed or deleted anything, so I'm wondering how I can solve this.

Many thanks,

Michaela

[frabjous]

Do you know where the binaries for pdflatex/pdftex are? Add those directories to your path, or create symlinks to them.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Michaela,

welcome to the board!
Try

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which pdflatex
 
 
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in a terminal window (at the command prompt) to locate the pdflatex program.

Stefan

[michaela]

Thankyou for your posts. I managed to get it to work, hurray, although don't want to speak to soon as this is very new for me and I keep encountering problems! I added the path texbin - I don't know how it had suddenly changed since it was working fine before. Anyway - have since moved to Texshop.