On 20 Dec 2007, at 8:41 PM, Alexander H. Montgomery wrote:

> On 2007-12-20, at 2:20 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
>
>> Database > Migrate Files, a new assistant to migrate file and URL
>> fields to the new file icon interface. It has some options like
>> removing the original fields. Note that this is undoable, so you can
>> safely experiment with it.
>
> 1)This appears not to do anything if you have "file papers relative to
> each document" set.

File migration shouldn't depend on this setting as such, but it may  
depend on having relative paths in your Local-Urls. However as long  
as the file has been saved it should work also for those.

However the autofiling may have problems in that case, I haven't  
tested that. Do you have these problems also if you turn of auto filing?

> Actually, there appear to be a number of problems
> when you're filing relative (see the two crash reports posted to the
> bug reports).

That's not good.

> It's unclear what should be done with the relative
> filing option in this new paradigm. I personally like it and use it
> because it makes it easier to share databases and PDFs with others.
>

The new setup should work much better with relative paths, as it  
saves both a relative and absolute path (and file ID), searching the  
relative path first.

> 2)I appreciate the continued AppleScript support for "local file" and
> "url" so far (since I've got a LOT of scripts with them), but it
> appears that they have disappeared from the dictionary. Will these be
> disappearing in function as well?
>

They've been hidden from the dictionary, as they are deprecated. They  
may be removed in the future. They do still work though, but they now  
refer to the first linked file (or URL), rather than the Local-Url  
(or Url) field. For your future scripts you should use the "linked  
file" and "linked URL" elements. See the sample script for some info  
on how to use those.

> 3)When a file is selected in the file pane, if pressing space opened
> Quick Look, this would make it nicely consistent with the Finder.
>
> -AHM

And perhaps Return opens the file?

Christiaan


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