Just a quick follow-up: the preferences are still there under AutoFile, but it 
doesn’t seem to be working. When I drag-and-drop a file, or right click and 
select a file to attach, it just leaves the file in its original location.

J

> On 20 Jan 2023, at 08:48, Alexander,J <ja...@lse.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> It seems that a bug might have appeared in the most recent release of 
> BibDesk.  Previously, whenever I attached a PDF to a bibliography entry, it 
> would automatically move the file and save a copy to a specified directory 
> using the template:
> 
>       ..specified folder…/surname of first author/first few words appearing 
> in the title.pdf
> 
> That was really useful, because I could specify the folder my Dropbox, and so 
> the attached article/book would automatically copy to all my computers.
> 
> I just tried attaching a PDF to an entry, and I noticed that it left the PDF 
> in its original location. When I checked the preferences, I couldn’t see any 
> preference that corresponded to the previous behaviour of BibDesk — i.e., 
> automatically moving the file to a new location and renaming it.  Has the 
> previous capability been removed?
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Jason
> 
> —
> Prof. J. McKenzie Alexander
> Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method
> London School of Economics and Political Science
> Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE
> 


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