[Tex/LaTex] Force MikTex to produce auxiliary files

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I recently moved to a new computer and have noticed that since installing the latest version of Miktex, compiling my documents no longer produces any auxiliary files whatsoever. The files that I used to see but are no longer generated are the .aux files, .bbl files (for BibTex), .log files, .out files, .thm files and .toc files. There is nothing other than the .pdf and synctex.gz file.

Despite this the pdf displays as usual. This would not bother me otherwise, but I can no longer upload to the arxiv no longer works correctly due to the missing auxiliary files. I am wondering if there is a way to force MikTex to produce the missing files.

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Using @Ulrike_Fischer's suggestion I edited "pdfLaTeX + MakeIndex + BibTeX" in Edit->Preferences->Typesetting and found that --clean was indeed enabled (apparently by default). Deleting this fixed my problem.

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[Tex/LaTex] Deleting external/auxiliary files

if you want get rid of those files in your document directory then use the optional argument -output-directory=whatever. Then all auxiliary files and the pdf are saved in that directory. For example what I use:

pdflatex -output-directory=target <file>

then my <file>.pdf is also in target, but I always use a softlink ln -s target/<file>.pdf then I have it in my documents directory, too. But as Martin already pointed out, deleting the auxiliary files makes only sense when you are really sure that your pdf file is finished.

If you want to copy the created pdf then use

\usepackage{shellesc}
\AtEndDocument{\ShellEscape{cp /<target>/\jobname.pdf /home/voss/}}

replace /home/voss/ with the directory where the pdf should be copied to. Then run the document with

pdflatex --shell-escape -output-directory=<target> <file>

However, writing a small script seems to be easier.

[Tex/LaTex] XeLatex: problem with aux-directory and include-directory options on TexLive

Yes, -aux-directory and -include-directory are specific to MikTeX. web2c/kpathsea-programs (e.g. those from TeXLive) offer only -output-directory.

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