On Dec 30, 2007, at 2:23 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: > On 30 Dec 2007, at 11:14 PM, Simon Spiegel wrote: > >> On 30.12.2007, at 22:59, Christiaan Hofman wrote: >> >>> Oh, you're having your files on a separate disk? That's bad, as >>> aliases don't work over volumes. I'm not sure how we could solve >>> this. >> >> Ah, I wasn't aware that this is a problem. I used to have this ever >> since autofile option became available. It's not that this is a huge >> problem for me, I could move the files to my main volume, but BibDesk >> should at least warn the user that this doesn't work. >> >> Thinking about it, what exactly is the problem here? As I said: The >> file gets moved properly, it just isn't displayed properly. But if I >> then drag the moved file inside BibDesk, it is again properly >> displayed.
Does it show correctly if you save/close/reopen that file, without the extra drag step? I'll have to try this myself... >> So this does work somehow. Maybe this extra step has just >> to be added when the location is on another disk ... >> >> simon >> >> -- >> Simon Spiegel > > We save the file using an alias with relative path information. > However during a bibdesk run we also keep another type of reference > as the main link to the file (however this type of reference cannot > be saved). Relative aliases require the two paths involved to be on > the same volume, so that 's where it probably goes wrong. However > it's still possible to link files across volumes, because we actually > work with the other type of reference. But tracking it when it moves > can get broken. I'm not sure where precisely things go wrong and how > to catch problems. But it sure should get fixed somehow. Is it just the relative alias that causes a problem? Finder aliases work across volumes (even network volumes), so there should be a way to make it work. Hopefully it won't be too much hassle. -- adam ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
