You can have BibDesk do the spring cleaning for you. By doing a database find/replace on local-url, it'll ask you if you want to move the papers to the new location. Or if you've already done the move, you can do the database find/replace on the folder name. No need to use TextWrangler.
On Jun 14, 2007, at 9:26 AM, P Kishor wrote: > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
