[TxMt] latex Question: ! LaTeX Error: File `pdfsync.sty' not found.

[Allan Odgaard]

On 4/4/2006, at 16:57, Jens Krahe wrote:

> ok, as you mentioned, i am a osx newbee. i installed it and it works.
> but still i don't know what i did wrong with textmate. is textmate
> this dangerous, that it just overwrite or deleting something?

Not by itself. Cmd-B will however save the current file (for LaTeX).  
That you got an admin password request would indicate that you did  
not have permission (by default) to save this file.

Could it be that maybe you opened one of the LaTeX “system” files,  
edited it, pressed cmd-B, then after entering the admin password, you  
would have overwritten that file, which caused the LaTeX install to  
break!?!

It’s hard for us to speculate on what went wrong with the limited  
information. But you can be certain that TM will not go around and  
break things, unless you explicitly ask it to do so, for example by  
overwriting system files (which do require admin password).