Compiler crashes after making each mistake

Question

I am trying to make tables in LaTeX. However, each time I make a mistake the compiler crashes even by removing the mistake with the following message:

Runaway argument? {lof ! File ended while scanning use of \@writefile. \par l.19 \begin{document}

Then, I have to delete all files except the .tex file and compile the program again. Would somebody please help me to solve it?

Answer 1

My crystal ball says: your error concerns mismatched curly braces in the \caption or \label of the table, or some other part that is written to external files because it influences cross-references or the ToC or the List of Tables.

Answer 2

It is failing to write to the list of figures, so most likely you have a fragile command in a figure \caption that should be preceded by \protect. But you will need to delete the lof and aux files initially as if a bad file is written on the previous run it is still input at the start of the next run.