diff --git a/src/ChangeLog b/src/ChangeLog
index 9e6eba627c..bf87efabf9 100644
--- a/src/ChangeLog
+++ b/src/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2002-10-16  John Levon  <levon@movementarian.org>
+
+	* buffer.C: remove \\protected_separator parsing done by lyx2lyx now
+ 
 2002-10-16  Jean-Marc Lasgouttes  <Jean-Marc.Lasgouttes@inria.fr>
 
 	* converter.C (view): add support for $$i (file name) and $$p
diff --git a/src/buffer.C b/src/buffer.C
index 0acfd71a74..ac3d0e35f7 100644
--- a/src/buffer.C
+++ b/src/buffer.C
@@ -566,8 +566,7 @@ Buffer::parseSingleLyXformat2Token(LyXLex & lex, Paragraph *& par,
 				string next_token = lex.getString();
 				if (next_token == "\\-") {
 					par->insertChar(pos, '-', font);
-				} else if (next_token == "\\protected_separator"
-					|| next_token == "~") {
+				} else if (next_token == "~") {
 					par->insertChar(pos, ' ', font);
 				} else {
 					lex.printError("Token `$$Token' "
@@ -915,19 +914,6 @@ Buffer::parseSingleLyXformat2Token(LyXLex & lex, Paragraph *& par,
 	} else if (token == "\\hfill") {
 		par->insertChar(pos, Paragraph::META_HFILL, font);
 		++pos;
-	} else if (token == "\\protected_separator") { // obsolete
-		// This is a backward compability thingie. (Lgb)
-		// Remove it later some time...introduced with fileformat
-		// 2.16. (Lgb)
-		LyXLayout_ptr const & layout = par->layout();
-
-		if (layout->free_spacing || par->isFreeSpacing()) {
-			par->insertChar(pos, ' ', font);
-		} else {
-			Inset * inset = new InsetSpecialChar(InsetSpecialChar::PROTECTED_SEPARATOR);
-			par->insertInset(pos, inset, font);
-		}
-		++pos;
 	} else if (token == "\\bibitem") {  // ale970302
 		if (!par->bibkey) {
 			InsetCommandParams p("bibitem", "dummy");
diff --git a/src/insets/ChangeLog b/src/insets/ChangeLog
index 59a486f380..010ee214d1 100644
--- a/src/insets/ChangeLog
+++ b/src/insets/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2002-10-16  John Levon  <levon@movementarian.org>
+
+	* insetspecialchar.C: remove \\protected_separator parsing
+ 
 2002-09-25  Juergen Spitzmueller  <j.spitzmueller@gmx.de>
 
 	* insetquote.C: fix LaTeX output of quotation marks.
diff --git a/src/insets/insetspecialchar.C b/src/insets/insetspecialchar.C
index f0f5d5e881..ce473a29f2 100644
--- a/src/insets/insetspecialchar.C
+++ b/src/insets/insetspecialchar.C
@@ -185,7 +185,6 @@ void InsetSpecialChar::write(Buffer const *, ostream & os) const
 		command = "\\menuseparator";
 		break;
 	case PROTECTED_SEPARATOR:
-		//command = "\\protected_separator";
 		command = "~";
 		break;
 	}
@@ -209,8 +208,7 @@ void InsetSpecialChar::read(Buffer const *, LyXLex & lex)
 		kind_ = LDOTS;
 	else if (command == "\\menuseparator")
 		kind_ = MENU_SEPARATOR;
-	else if (command == "\\protected_separator"
-		 || command == "~")
+	else if (command == "~")
 		kind_ = PROTECTED_SEPARATOR;
 	else
 		lex.printError("InsetSpecialChar: Unknown kind: `$$Token'");