On Jul 10, 2009, at 9:01 PM, John Stavrakakis wrote:
Hi there,I was looking into changing hard disks, and I remembered that bibdesk uses hard links.
Nope, it doesn't; BibDesk uses Mac OS aliases and falls back to relative paths. Maybe you're thinking of Time Machine?
I looked up the FAQ to find that you can add a "Local File" field, but this does not appear in my version (1.3.21). I scrolled, but only Local URL is there.
What did you scroll? You can add a column in the main table called "Local File," but that's not actually a BibTeX field. If you open your .bib file in a text editor and see fields named "Bdsk-File-1 = ...", then you're using aliases. The "Local File" column is just another way to display the file/URL icons, mainly for sorting them.
So my question is, how can I successfully migrate without having to reinitiate all the aliases?
Short answer: ensure the same relative path from your .bib file to your papers, or the same absolute path if you're just cloning to a larger drive. I posted something on this last week, and there are more details in the archives:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg04316.html
I wouldn't really be keen on making a script to parse bib file, read in link info, add new bib-field for local filename. but it does beat relinking >700 files to link via gui :P
You can do this in BD with AppleScript much more reliably than parsing the bib file (especially since you'd have to decode the Bdsk-File fields). But you definitely should not have to do it!
-- Adam
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