Thank you, Christiaan.
Ooops, it was quite trivial.
However, I have used it as you say... and still I get almost nothing. For
example, one of my libraries has more than 400 entries. I know I have papers
for at least 50 of them, yet the File Matcher only finds one... My script
finds many. It also makes many false positives (files linked to the wrong
entry) mainly due to the fact that 'mdfind' cannot use globbed text and
possibly some false negatives (entries not getting files that match them)
with various reasons: scanned PDFs, etc.
I wanted to add an entry to my script in the Wiki but I don't seem able to
create an account :-(
In the meantime, if someone is interested, the script can be downloaded
from:
http://www.ysbl.york.ac.uk/~mol/Another%20file%20matcher.scpt.gz<http://www.ysbl.york.ac.uk/%7Emol/Another%20file%20matcher.scpt.gz>
This is a brief description of the script:
This script takes a selection of publications in a BibDesk library,
asks for a folder where to look for possible files matching the selected entries
uses 'mdfind' to try to identify these possibly matching files.
To do so, it uses the Title of the entry plus the first 90 characters
in the Abstract
field of the entry as the searching argument for 'mdfind'
Of course, it works only if the title and the abstract are included in the file.
This is the case usually for PDF files, except for scanned ones.
The script can be modified to get meaningful text from any other field
in the entries.
It can be left running unattended, in which case every file matching
the criteria is
linked to the publication. This normally results in many false
positives, but may be
useful for medium/big-size libraries. Because the files are not
autofiled, the user has
a chance to select later what to keep linked and what to unlink and,
when satisfied, to
auto file manually.
Expectedly, it's quite slow...
There is a lot of margin for improvement...
Please, use it at your own risk! Backup your library first, at least. I'm
just a novice with Applescript...
Cheers,
Miguel
2008/3/24, Christiaan Hofman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>
> On 24 Mar 2008, at 11:20 AM, Miguel Ortiz-Lombardía wrote:
>
> Hmm, that's what I thought. Except that I have never managed to convince
> the "File Matcher" to do what I want... It indexes the files for ages and
> never finds anything. And the indexation is redone next time I look for
> something, so I have not a clear idea on what's going on... I assume this
> must be me doing something wrong, but I have failed to find a clear (to me)
> documentation for the File Matcher in the manual or the wiki. Could you
> please point me to such info?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> You have to choose 1 or more documents you want to match to, and a bunch
> of files to match (which you can add one by one or by adding folders). The
> file matcher indexes the files (which takes some time, but it happens in the
> background) and tries to search the index for the title and the first author
> of each publication in the document(s). It then displays the matches it
> finds. YMMV.
>
> Christiaan
>
>
> Miguel
>
> 2008/3/24, Christiaan Hofman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >
> > The best place to link scripts is on the Wiki, because that will stay
> > around.
> > What you describe thugh sounds very much like the build in File Matcher.
> >
> > Christiaan
> >
> > On 24 Mar 2008, at 9:35 AM, Miguel Ortiz-Lombardía wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > With Christiaan's help I managed to write an Applescript that takes a
> > selection of publications and searches, via the Spotlight mdfind program,
> > for files that may correspond to them in a directory where I have
> > accumulated for years PDF files with names not following any particular
> > rule. The script then asks me whether to link these files or not. Being
> > myself very unexperienced in Applescript, I thought that someone more
> > proficient might be interested in the script and perhaps show a way to
> > improve it. As it is, it runs quite slowly, but my main concern is not that,
> > but the fact that BibDesk is blocked until the end of the script execution.
> >
> > My question is: may I send the script to this list or there is a better
> > option or a more appropriate forum?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> >
> > Miguel
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