From 20a5e94a861e036e841c5faef15da766f7df2fa2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Richard Heck <rgheck@comcast.net>
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 20:02:30 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fix bug 4517.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/trunk@22681 a592a061-630c-0410-9148-cb99ea01b6c8
---
 src/LyXFunc.cpp | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/LyXFunc.cpp b/src/LyXFunc.cpp
index ef90163f34..966ad3a2d1 100644
--- a/src/LyXFunc.cpp
+++ b/src/LyXFunc.cpp
@@ -1930,8 +1930,9 @@ void LyXFunc::open(string const & fname)
 		filename = fname;
 
 	// get absolute path of file and add ".lyx" to the filename if
-	// necessary
-	FileName const fullname = fileSearch(string(), filename, "lyx");
+	// necessary. we allow_unreadable because the file may not exist.
+	FileName const fullname = 
+			fileSearch(string(), filename, "lyx", support::allow_unreadable);
 	if (!fullname.empty())
 		filename = fullname.absFilename();
 
-- 
2.39.2