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[Robert Lamar <address@hidden>]

Vincent,

el.douwen wrote:
> hi
> i am sorry to post this message a second time
> i start my school year these days and i need to work on my documents
> when i launch texmacs, i click right then "open a document" and i select 
> one of the docs i had prepared during the last weeks
> i click ok
> and suddenly and systematically texmacs disappear
> so i can not use any of my documents
> i have tried sonethign else:
> i create a new document
> i save it anywhere
> i quit texmacs
> i lancuh again texmacs
> i ask texmacs to open the document
> same thing: texmacs disappear...
> can any one give me an idea what io can do ?
>
> Vincent

I do not use a Macintosh, but if I were experiencing this problem on my 
(Linux) machine, the first thing I would try would be to delete (or move 
to a backup) the .TeXmacs directory in my home directory.  This is the 
directory that saves many of your settings, and it is possible that 
something there has become corrupted.  If you delete this, and then run 
TeXmacs again, the directory will be recreated from scratch -- hopefully 
without any of the issues you currently see.

I'm not sure where this directory is on OS X, but perhaps you may know 
it, or you may get a reply from someone with more experience with Apples.

If this fails, it might be helpful to open a Terminal, execute TeXmacs 
from there, and then try opening a document.  When it crashes, there may 
be some helpful error messages printed to the terminal window which 
might shed some light on the problem.

Helpfully,
Robert


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