On 6/14/07, Adam R. Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday, June 14, 2007, at 08:49AM, "P Kishor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >In a fit of spring-cleaning, I changed the name of the folder holding > >all my PDFs, and changed the path accordingly in the prefs as well. > >Maybe I was too optimisitic. The old path remains in the existing > >entries, and the only way I can figure out to change it is by slogging > >through all the entries one by one and editing them manually. Say it > >ain't so; tell me a better way please. > > You want aliases stored in the .bib file ;). Since we don't do that, > Edit->Find->Database Find and Replace will help you out, but you'll have to > apply it to each field. You can also use that feature to move files. >
opening the .bib file in TextWrangler and doing a search/replace did the job. Still, would be nice to have a checkbox or sump'n that allows changing the path kinda like how iTunes does... enter a new repository location and it will do the needful. -- Puneet Kishor http://punkish.eidesis.org/ Nelson Inst. for Env. Studies, UW-Madison http://www.nelson.wisc.edu/ Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://www.osgeo.org/education/ S&T Policy Fellow, National Academy of Sciences http://www.nas.edu/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- collaborate, communicate, compete ===================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
