On 30 Jan 2009, at 3:39 PM, Simon Spiegel wrote: > > On 30.01.2009, at 15:27, Michael McCracken wrote: > >> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Jonas Zimmermann >> <lis...@jonaszimmermann.de> wrote: >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>> Hash: SHA1 >>> >>> On 29.01.2009, at 15:38, Cloy Tobola wrote: >>> >>>> I have a Bibdesk bibliography file that's getting large - 1.1mb >>>> with >>>> 315 sources. (Breaking it into smaller files isn't a good option >>>> right >>>> now.) >>>> >>>> Since I use the file (and attached PDFs) from several locations, I >>>> keep the file (and the auto-filed PDFs) on a WebDAV drive. >>>> >>>> That works okay, but it's getting slow. It often takes 2 or 3 >>>> minutes >>>> to open the file, and about 90 seconds to save it. >>>> >>>> Is there a way to optimize the file so it opens/saves more quickly? >>> >>> >>> The only thing that comes to my mind is using a version control >>> system >>> such as SVN with this setup. So you can work locally on your files >>> and >>> only synchronise when needed. But of course, this opens another huge >>> bag of problems... >> >> If you're used to version control, SVN might make sense. But it's a >> little overkill - you don't really need history and branching for >> this >> stuff, you just need backup and syncing. >> >> I haven't tried it, but it occurs to me that using dropbox might be >> the best way to solve Cloy's problem: https://www.getdropbox.com/ >> >> It syncs files between computers but should be much faster than >> webDAV >> since it keeps local copies of the files and synchronizes >> asynchronously. It also sends minimal diffs - I believe webDAV sends >> entire file contents for every update. >> >> The free account lets you store up to 2GB. If anyone tries this out, >> please let us know how it works for you. > > I use Dropbox quite extensively and I'm very fond of it. Among other > things I have my .bib file with >3500 entries and about 300MB of > PDFs which are managed by BibDesk on it. This works really nice and > is for me so far the best solution to have my different machines in > sync. I used unison before but here to disadvantage is that you > always have to do the syncing by hand. > > There's only one problem, although I'm not sure about it. I think > that in some circumstances, PDFs on Dropbox can lose their Skim > annotations. As I said, I'm not really sure that this is actually > true, since I couldn't reproduce it, but I once lost my annotations > (maybe this happened before when I synched with unison). Maybe on of > the developers can shed light on this: Could this be problem of > Dropbox?
You're sure you can't reproduce? Because they say it's not supported <http://www.getdropbox.com/help/6 >, and I can't find it yet in their ChangeLogs. Though they are working on it <http://wiki.getdropbox.com/FeatureRequests>. > On a related note: I'm not sure whether I got something wrong, but > is it correct that BibDesk will only read Skim annotations in the > PDF but not when they are in a seperate .skim file? > > simon No, BibDesk can get skim notes from EAs, PDF bundles, and equally- named .skim files. Christiaan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
