On Thursday, August 23, 2007, at 10:21AM, "Christiaan Hofman" <[EMAIL 
PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>On 23 Aug 2007, at 7:05 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
>
>>
>> On Thursday, August 23, 2007, at 09:58AM, "Chris Goedde"  
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>>> Second, what's the best way to remove duplicates? I can
>>> identify them easily enough, but I don't know how to trim them down.
>>
>> Look at the menu options on the Database menu.  You should be able  
>> to select the duplicates and then just hit delete to remove them  
>> (after verifying they are duplicates).
>>
>> -- 
>> Adam
>
>Alternatively, you can add a (temporary) external file group for the  
>second (and third etc) file and merge in the items from that group  
>(through the contextual menu for the external file group), which will  
>ignore duplicates. 

Yeah, that's much easier than what I suggested, but that feature didn't exist 
when I merged my files.  As Adam G. pointed out, my suggestion on duplicates 
was wrong:  don't hit delete, because it selects the original and any copies!  
If you search the help book for "Duplicate" it will explain this, also; it used 
to work as I described, I think.

>You could then easily go to the Last Import group  
>to add the items to a new group as Adam described.

Or use the find & replace panel to set all items in the last import group?  
There are usually a dozen ways to do the same thing in BibDesk :).

-- 
adam

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