WinEdt ⇒ BibTeX prevents Compilation

[Phanixis]

Ok, I just replaced the computer I was using to run WinEdt at the beginning of the week, transferring all my old Latex documents over to the new machine, and creating a fresh install of MikTex and WinEdt.

I have found that I am now unable to compile my old documents, because I am getting error messages from BibTex, even though my documents should not be making use of BibTex. The error messages are as follows:

This is BibTex, Version 0.99cThe top-level auxiliary file: Diffraction_References.aux

I found no \citation commands---while reading file Diffraction_References.aux

I found no \bibdata commands---while reading file Diffraction_References.aux

I found no \bibstlye command---while reading file Diffraction_References.aux

Keep in mind two things:

1.) This document compiled fine on my old machine.

2.) These are errors, not warnings. The halt the compilation process and prevent me from generating a .pdf document. I can't ignore them, I must find a way to correct them.

I have no idea why I am getting these error messages or how to get rid of them. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

[kaiserkarl13]

If your document contains no \bibliographystyle or \bibliography commands, you should not be running BibTeX in the first place (hence the errors). You should look for a setting in the preferences (this is a WinEdt post, right?) that tells it not to run BibTeX. I don't use WinEdt, so I can't tell you the specific window to be in.

Alternatively, you could run LaTeX/PDFLaTeX on the files manually, which should proceed error-free: pdflatex file.tex (makes file.pdf). Run it twice to get cross-references right.

[Phanixis]

I was thinking something along these lines, but I cannot seem to locate the option that would disable these BibTex compilation attempts.

What is perhaps more perplexing is that I have installed Winedt many times in the past, and these errors had never occurred, so I do not understand how the program is by default attempting to compile BibTex files. Its not even a new version of Winedt, its from the same .exe installation file I used for the previous machine, where these problems did not occur.

Thanks for the advice though.