On Aug 18, 2007, at 06:01, Alex Hamann wrote: > I got a bib file from a professor that used to be an endnote file but > then got converted to .bib > It is really large, more than 15 MB and even most texteditors I used > to open it struggle heavily with it on my G4 iBook. BibDesk will not > even open it in a reasonable amount of time. This made me wonder if > there are any known limitations to how big bib-files may be in order > to be usable with BibDesk.
How much RAM do you have, and how fast is your processor? There isn't a known file size limit. I have 7 MB files that open with no problems, but have never tested with 15 MB; a file that large is going to use a significant amount of memory. If you send me the file off- list (zipped), I can see if there's something in BibDesk that we can optimize. Also, take a sample of BibDesk while that file is loading (using Terminal: `sample BibDesk 20`) and post that. > > (I am aware that endnote is based on a completely different design > and my intention is certainly not to advertise endnote here. ) Binary files will certainly load faster, but EndNote XML should suffer from similar problems. Can you open the file with EndNote? -- Adam ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
