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/
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