LyX ⇒ large (258kb) lyx file not opening in windows 8.1 -- urgent

[Sutanuka]

hi,

I am running lyx 2.1.3 in windows 8.1 in my new laoptop. I can succesfully open my old lyx files of size 40kb and generate pdf from it. But when I try to open other lyx files of size 250kb or more, it never opens and lyx hangs showing not responding for hours.

I have written all these lyx files in my previous laptop having exactly same configuration, only difference being the processor in my old laptop was intel i3 and in my new laptop it is amd a4. And I generated these files using lyx 2.0.5 in windows 7. In my old laptop, I have succesfully created, edited and converted these files to pdf.

Please help me. I need to solve it urgently. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling several times. But still I can not open the file of size 258 kb in lyx 2.1.3 in windowds 8.1 in my new laptop.

regards,
Sutanuka

[Sutanuka]

hi,

I uninstalled 2.1.3 and installed 2.0.8 instead. The problem is solved. It seems this is a portability issue between 2.0.5 to 2.1.3.

[Johannes_B]

This question has also been posted to the LyX-Mailing list, and it seems that there is a bug in lyx2lyx.

To workaround the issue, you can use the bit older LyX 2.0.8.1, which uses the same format as 2.0.5.

[scottkosty]

Sutanuka, can you help us fix the problem? Can you send a minimal example to lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org?