Hello, I have a curious problem with Bibdesk 1.3.21 on OSX 10.6.1. I have a single bib file which I use for my papers collection and this is synchronized between my desktop at work and my laptop via unison.
In the last couple of days after getting a new machine at work, I find that when I open the bib file on my laptop the File links are all messed up. These are Auto-Filed under ~/Documents/papers. In investigating this discrepancy I noticed is that the laptop and the desktop are formatted differently; the former is a case-sensitive file system, while the latter isn't. This by itself should not be a problem, since I copied over the entire directory structure into my desktop. Now I do know that the default auto-file location used by Bibdesk is ~/Documents/Papers; despite me also copying over the Bibdesk preferences file to the desktop, somewhere the system seems to think that the files are located in the folder "Papers" as opposed to "papers" (I ran into this doing a spotlight search). What I don't understand is why does Bibdesk changed the file links each time it saves? Once there is an absolute reference to the file shouldn't that remain unchanged? Or do I misunderstand how the File field works? To solve this problem I presume that I could change the Auto-File directory and re-link everything (by having Bibdesk move the files). But I wanted to explore if there is a way out without doing so since it involves moving over 2gigs of pdf files. Could I get away by just renaming the folder and changing the default auto-file location? Thanks and best wishes, Mukund ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry® Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9-12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
