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my Biber don't creates the bbl file anymore. One week before everything worked just fine. I tried to install a fresh TeXLive (2020) distro on my laptop, but it doesn't work either.

With TeXLive 2019 (which was installed on my laptop) it doesn't work either (error: ifluatex.sty not found). If I put the file manually in the folder the output is the same as with TeXLive 2020.

I've already reviewed this posts and tried the solutions (spoiler: they're not working):

My System:

  • Windows 10x64 2004 19041.388
  • pdfTeX 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.21 (TeX Live 2020/W32TeX)
  • biber version: 2.16
  • BibTeX 0.99d (TeX Live 2020/W32TeX)
  • biblatex 2020/12/31 v3.16
  • Sublime Text 3.2.2 3211
  • LaTeXTools st3-4.0.0-alpha.9

MWE:

\listfiles
\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{biblatex}
\addbibresource{ref.bib}
\begin{filecontents}{ref.bib}
    @Article{Foo,
      author = {Guy, Some},
      title  = {Some Title},
      year   = {2021}
    }
\end{filecontents}


\begin{document}
    This is a test.\cite{Foo}
    \printbibliography
\end{document}

I run

pdflatex bib.tex
biber --debug bib
pdflatex bib.tex
pdflatex bib.tex

Output of bib.blg on pastebin

Output of bib.log on pastebin

Summary:

biber --cache don't do the trick

Changing the TEMP/TMP user-environment variables don't do the trick either.

Tex-file is located in a non-special-character folder. With second machine it's not working either.

Removing and (re)installing the biber package doesn't did the trick.

Updated the whole TeXLive installation with tlmgr update --self --all --reinstall-forcibly-removed

C:\Temp\mwe>kpsewhich biblatex.sty
c:/texlive/2020/texmf-dist/tex/latex/biblatex/biblatex.sty
Patrick
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Compiling as administrator did the trick.

But how can I repair my installation? And why does the error comes up now, but not last week? Didn't update the TeXLive Distro in admin mode.

Patrick
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    I would not want to start compiling documents as admin. When you say biber --cache did not work, did you actually delete the directory indicated by biber --cache completely or did you just run the command? You really need to delete the cache as explained in https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/140814/35864 – moewe Feb 05 '21 at 06:28
  • Thank you. I misunderstood this, I just ran the command without deleting the folder actually.

    And I had to compile as admin, because I needed the paper because of a dead line. I lost 1 day with this "issue".

    Now everything works fine, I don't need to run it as admin any more. Didn't changed anything at all since. (And yes, I tried to turn it off and on again :P)

     – Patrick Feb 06 '21 at 13:07