On Tuesday, January 15, 2008, at 08:34AM, "Holger Frauenrath" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Some background: If I am not mistaken the autofile feature is >supposed to help you keep order in your linked files by automatically >naming them correctly and putting them in the right place once you >associate them (e.g., by drag&drop onto a reference) onto a >reference. What this way of linking files and references assumes is >that you already have a reference and then, e.g., download a file. I >have never used the autofile feature myself for the simple reason >that, usually, I work the other way around. I (or one of my >coworkers) would typically read some pdf files, and save them to disk >if I want to keep them (according to a specified naming scheme, and >into a specified literature folder). At a later point, I would search >& download the references (e.g., via SciFinder; thanks, Adam!) and >import them to BibDesk. So, the pdf files are already in the right >place, and they have the right name; what is missing is the >association with the references. If your files are already in the correct location as a matter of course, you may want to disable part of AutoFile (uncheck "File papers automatically"). Then you can drag-and-drop the PDF onto the reference from SciFinder, and you'll have a link to that file without moving the file. >Is there a way to fix the AppleScript? Yes, but one of the AS gurus will have to help with that... >Is there another good way of dealing with this situation (assuming >that a large number of papers is involved; for some reason, the >conversion of the old local-urls to "local field" did not work in my >case; I now have no linked files - no big drama, I have a backup)? This is big drama as far as I'm concerned, since it should never happen as described. I'd like to know more details: - what did you do in the interface - what didn't work (what did you expect to see) - you have /no/ linked files? - what type of volume are the files stored on? (local drive, FireWire drive, NFS/AFP/SMB?) >Would it be a desirable (and implementable) feature for BibDesk to >scan the specified literature folder whether files exist with a file >name beginning with "citekey" and just link them automatically? No; that's a definite use for scripting. -- adam ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
