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I have encountered a weird problem with Mathematica 9. I have it installed on my laptop running Windows 7 and on my work computer now running Debian Wheezy. I am also using dropbox to access my work files and folders on the two systems. On both windows and linux I have setup the NaturalColour stylesheet as my default stylesheet for mathematica. I had no problems with this system until a few weeks ago when every time I open in linux a notebook written in windows, mathematica starts with that beep and the window with the error about the file could not be found. When I press OK on that window, the notebook opens in a new notebook with a really basic stylesheet: no title, subtitle and cell groups.

Any help would be great!

Update:

Output of the function in the suggested post:

/home/lucian/.Mathematica/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/StyleSheets/NaturalColor.nb, /home/programs/Wolfram/Mathematica/9.0/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/StyleSheets/ArticleClassic.nb, /home/programs/Wolfram/Mathematica/9.0/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/StyleSheets/Article/JournalArticle.nb, /home/programs/Wolfram/Mathematica/9.0/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/StyleSheets/Article/LaTeX-Article.nb, /home/programs/Wolfram/Mathematica/9.0/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/StyleSheets/Article/LaTeX-Report.nb, /home/programs/Wolfram/Mathematica/9.0/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/StyleSheets/ArticleModern.nb, /home/programs/Wolfram/Mathematica/9.0/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/StyleSheets/Article/Preprint.nb, /home/programs/Wolfram/Mathematica/9.0/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/StyleSheets/Book/Compilation.nb, /home/programs/Wolfram/Mathematica/9.0/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/StyleSheets/Book/LaTeX-Book.nb, /home/programs/Wolfram/Mathematica/9.0/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/StyleSheets/Book/Monograph.nb, /home/programs/Wolfram/Mathematica/9.0/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/StyleSheets/Book/Textbook.nb, /home/programs/Wolfram/Mathematica/9.0/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/StyleSheets/Classic.nb, /home/programs/Wolfram/Mathematica/9.0/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/StyleSheets/Classroom.nb, /home/programs/Wolfram/Mathematica/9.0/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/StyleSheets/Core.nb, /home/programs/Wolfram/Mathematica/9.0/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/StyleSheets/Creative/NaturalColor.nb, /home/programs/Wolfram/Mathematica/9.0/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/StyleSheets/Creative/PastelColor.nb, /home/programs/Wolfram/Mathematica/9.0/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/StyleSheets/Creative/PrimaryColor.nb, /home/programs/Wolfram/Mathematica/9.0/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/StyleSheets/Default_8.0.nb, /home/programs/Wolfram/Mathematica/9.0/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/StyleSheets/Default.nb, /home/programs/Wolfram/Mathematica/9.0/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/StyleSheets/Demo.nb, /home/programs/Wolfram/Mathematica/9.0/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/StyleSheets/DemoText.nb, /home/programs/Wolfram/Mathematica/9.0/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/StyleSheets/Dialog.nb, /home/programs/Wolfram/Mathematica/9.0/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/StyleSheets/EnvironmentMenuClear.nb, /home/programs/Wolfram/Mathematica/9.0/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/StyleSheets/HelpBrowser.nb, /home/programs/Wolfram/Mathematica/9.0/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/StyleSheets/HTML.nb, /home/programs/Wolfram/Mathematica/9.0/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/StyleSheets/InlineModifier.nb, /home/programs/Wolfram/Mathematica/9.0/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/StyleSheets/NaturalColor.nb, /home/programs/Wolfram/Mathematica/9.0/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/StyleSheets/NotepadMono.nb, /home/programs/Wolfram/Mathematica/9.0/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/StyleSheets/Notepad.nb, /home/programs/Wolfram/Mathematica/9.0/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/StyleSheets/Package.nb, /home/programs/Wolfram/Mathematica/9.0/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/StyleSheets/Palette.nb, /home/programs/Wolfram/Mathematica/9.0/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/StyleSheets/PastelColor.nb, /home/programs/Wolfram/Mathematica/9.0/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/StyleSheets/PrimaryColor.nb, /home/programs/Wolfram/Mathematica/9.0/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/StyleSheets/PrivateStylesheetFormatting.nb, /home/programs/Wolfram/Mathematica/9.0/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/StyleSheets/PublicationDefault.nb, /home/programs/Wolfram/Mathematica/9.0/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/StyleSheets/Report/AutomatedReport.nb, /home/programs/Wolfram/Mathematica/9.0/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/StyleSheets/Report/ConfidentialReport.nb, /home/programs/Wolfram/Mathematica/9.0/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/StyleSheets/Report.nb, /home/programs/Wolfram/Mathematica/9.0/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/StyleSheets/Report/StandardReport.nb, /home/programs/Wolfram/Mathematica/9.0/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/StyleSheets/SlideShow/Earth.nb, /home/programs/Wolfram/Mathematica/9.0/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/StyleSheets/SlideShow/Garnet.nb, /home/programs/Wolfram/Mathematica/9.0/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/StyleSheets/SlideShow/Opal.nb, /home/programs/Wolfram/Mathematica/9.0/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/StyleSheets/SlideShow/Sapphire.nb, /home/programs/Wolfram/Mathematica/9.0/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/StyleSheets/SlideShow/Steel.nb, /home/programs/Wolfram/Mathematica/9.0/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/StyleSheets/SlideShow/Sunrise.nb, /home/programs/Wolfram/Mathematica/9.0/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/StyleSheets/SlideShow/Water.nb, /home/programs/Wolfram/Mathematica/9.0/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/StyleSheets/StyleMenuClear.nb, /home/programs/Wolfram/Mathematica/9.0/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/StyleSheets/StylesheetFormatting.nb, /home/programs/Wolfram/Mathematica/9.0/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/StyleSheets/SystemDialog.nb, /home/programs/Wolfram/Mathematica/9.0/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/StyleSheets/SystemPalette.nb, /home/programs/Wolfram/Mathematica/9.0/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/StyleSheets/Textbook.nb, /home/programs/Wolfram/Mathematica/9.0/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/StyleSheets/TutorialBook.nb, /home/programs/Wolfram/Mathematica/9.0/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/StyleSheets/Utility/Correspondence.nb, /home/programs/Wolfram/Mathematica/9.0/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/StyleSheets/Utility/Memo.nb, /home/programs/Wolfram/Mathematica/9.0/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/StyleSheets/Utility/Notepad.nb, /home/programs/Wolfram/Mathematica/9.0/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/StyleSheets/Utility/Outline.nb, /home/programs/Wolfram/Mathematica/9.0/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/StyleSheets/Wolfram/Demonstration.nb, /home/programs/Wolfram/Mathematica/9.0/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/StyleSheets/Wolfram/HandsOn.nb, /home/programs/Wolfram/Mathematica/9.0/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/StyleSheets/Wolfram/Legacy/Reference-v8-ja.nb, /home/programs/Wolfram/Mathematica/9.0/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/StyleSheets/Wolfram/Legacy/Reference-v8.nb, /home/programs/Wolfram/Mathematica/9.0/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/StyleSheets/Wolfram/Legacy/Reference-v8-zh.nb, /home/programs/Wolfram/Mathematica/9.0/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/StyleSheets/Wolfram/Reference-2.nb, /home/programs/Wolfram/Mathematica/9.0/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/StyleSheets/Wolfram/Reference-ja.nb, /home/programs/Wolfram/Mathematica/9.0/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/StyleSheets/Wolfram/Reference.nb, /home/programs/Wolfram/Mathematica/9.0/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/StyleSheets/Wolfram/Reference-zh.nb

I am sorry about the non-formatted text but I have no idea how to format an entire block of pasted text to make it look pretty here.

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    $\begingroup$ Your problem seems strongly related with this answer: mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/17323/… The answer should provide code for detection and repair of the issue $\endgroup$
    – hieron
    Aug 13, 2014 at 13:05
  • $\begingroup$ Can we hear from the OP whether or not @hieron's comment was useful? It's not obvious to me that the linked question is a duplicate since the OP states that everything was working until one day it wasn't. $\endgroup$
    – bobthechemist
    Aug 13, 2014 at 22:18
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    $\begingroup$ Sorry for the delayed answer but I had to leave the office early yesterday. I have tried to use the information from the post suggested by @hieron but unfortunately it didn't work (of maybe I didn't do it right). I have copied the NaturalColour.nb stylesheet to the /home/username/.Mathematica stylesheet folder but the problem persists. So I don't think the problems are related. I could post the output of the function from hieron's post, if that helps anyone. $\endgroup$
    – lucian
    Aug 14, 2014 at 8:06
  • $\begingroup$ Post anything you can. I'm afraid that just these few lines are not helpful :) $\endgroup$
    – Öskå
    Aug 14, 2014 at 9:17
  • $\begingroup$ I have updated the original post to include the output of the function from the post suggested by @hieron $\endgroup$
    – lucian
    Aug 14, 2014 at 10:46

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It took me a long time but I have finally managed to find a good solution for my problem. I will try to explain it here in case someone else is looking for the same thing.

As I have stated in my question, I am using Mathematica on two computers, one running Linux and the other Windows 7. I also like to use the NaturalColor.nb stylesheet under ..\SystemFiles\FrontEnd\StyleSheets\Creative\ (this path is for Windows). When I was switching from one OS to the other I would get and annoying error that the stylesheet could not be found.

My solution is as follows: On both systems copy the NaturalColor.nb file in the local configuration directory for each OS:

Windows 7: c:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Mathematica\SystemFiles\FrontEnd\StyleSheets\

Linux: /home/username/.Mathematica/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/StyleSheets/

After this it is a matter of modifying the Global Preferences on each system. In particular, the following two fields need to be changed:

StyleSheetPath:

{ParentList,FrontEnd`FileName[{$UserBaseDirectory,"SystemFiles","FrontEnd","StyleSheets"},"PacletManager"->True]}

And

DefaultStyleDefinitions: "NaturalColor.nb"

Good luck!

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  • $\begingroup$ Thanks for sharing your solution. $\endgroup$
    – Mr.Wizard
    May 27, 2015 at 19:39

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