BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ Citations are not found

[ChaseN7]

Hallo LaTeX community,

I have a big problem with LaTeX. I was working with LaTeX some time ago in school and now I need it for working in the university, but I keep getting the following message.

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Bibtex> I found no \citation commands---while reading file LaTeX1.aux
Bibtex> I found no \bibdata commands---while reading file LaTeX1.aux
Bibtex> I found no \bibstyle commands---while reading file LaTeX1.aux

I'm very desperate. I wasted a lot of time. I also reinstalled Windows on my PC. But the Massage keeps popping up.
When I say to TeXnicCenter not to use BibTeX in this profile, an other error occurs when I try to display the text. Also the Ccde I wrote (copied) is correct.

Has someone an idea?

(Sorry for the bad English. I'm not from US/GB and kind of upset )

[kaiserkarl13]

Without seeing what you typed, it's hard to be certain---please provide a minimal working example.

It sounds like BibTeX is trying to tell you what's wrong: you didn't use any \cite commands anywhere, so there are no bibliographic references to process.

[ChaseN7]

This is my current code.

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\documentclass[12pt]{article}

\begin{document}
Hello World
\end{document}

But now I uninstalled all Programms again and installed the LyXpackage (means a bundle of programms including miktex and LyX in one Setup) on my SSD and than TeXnicCenter (before i uninstalled it, it was installed on another HDD). Now I can bring out a PDF file (but no DVI). The three errors are still there.

Unfortunately I cannot copy the error code from the output box. Would it be helpful? Or can I post some reports from my program here? I don't know anything about this program so it would be nice if someone could guide me through.

Thanks for the reply

[localghost]

[…] Unfortunately I cannot copy the error code from the output box. […]

All error messages and other relevant information can be found in the compiler log (*.log) and the BibTeX log (*.blg). They are located in the same directory as your source code (*.tex). You can attach them to your next post by upload to the forum server.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[ChaseN7]

Thank you for the information! And here are the files.

[kaiserkarl13]

BibTeX is telling you it couldn't find any citations because you didn't put any citations in.

If all you have is

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\documentclass[12pt]{article}

\begin{document}
  Hello World
\end{document}

The you don't need to run BibTeX. So don't do it and it will solve your problem.

If you want a bibliography, add the \cite, \bibliographystyle, and \bibliography commands first, then run LaTeX, then run BibTeX