On 2007-August-29  , at 20:15 , Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
> On Wednesday, August 29, 2007, at 10:37AM, "Chris Goedde"  
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Aug 29, 2007, at 12:28 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, August 29, 2007, at 10:15AM, "Alexander H.
>>> Montgomery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>> A different question: would this just be for the main local-url
>>>> field, or for user-defined ones as well? How would we tell the
>>>> difference between the "main" field and the other local-url fields?
>>>
>>> Apparently I wasn't clear enough:  this would be separate from
>>> Local-Url and any custom file fields you have defined.  You could
>>> keep using the path-based system, or migrate to the new system with
>>> aliases, which would be a one-time operation.
>>>
>>> There would be no main file field, and you wouldn't set a field
>>> name/type for files in prefs.  Fields would be added dynamically as
>>> needed.  So you drop two files on the view, and one is assigned to
>>> Bdsk-File-1, and the other is Bdsk-File-2 in the BibTeX file.  All
>>> you see is the file's name, and its icon.  This assumes you're not
>>> already using that naming scheme for something else :).  Same idea
>>> goes for adding files via AS.
>>
>> Now I'm a bit confused. Are you saying that BibDesk would not rename
>> and relocate the pdf file? That seems like a step backward.
>
> Autofile would work as it does presently, except it would be  
> applied to all files associated with an item, not just Local-Url.   
> So you drop a file on the view, and if there's enough info, it's  
> autofiled immediately.  If not, we could badge it with a caution  
> icon or something.

What about the naming convention? I really like the fact that all my  
PDFs are named by Author+year+title. This allows me to find pdfs via  
spotlight/finder easily without having to run bibdesk everytime.  
Could this system autofile several files and gives them a name such as:
author-year-title-1.pdf
author-year-title-2.html
author-year-title-3.jpg
etc...
instead of Bdsk-file-1.pdf, Bdsk-file-2.html etc. ? It would be  
really useful this way. Otherwise I think I would (personally) keep  
using the old Local-Url system.

Cheers,

JiHO
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