On May 3, 2010, at 4:29 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> Its been a frustrating weekend. Last Friday my computer crashed and was only > brought back to life by the magic of Diskwarrior. I had an invalid B-tree > something or other. Luckily, everything was resuscitated EXCEPT my most > important file -- my bibdesk file. I have 1000 pdf's that I can no longer > access through Bibdesk. Every time I start Bibdesk I see my refs in the > program (just to taunt me) and then the spinning wheel of death appears (and > never goes away). Any and all help would be GREATLY appreciated. > > Niels I'd try to open the file using a text editor. If this works, I'd check for obvious errors in the bibtex entries (and fix them accordingly). If there's nothing obvious, I'd split the file into several parts and open these with BibDesk to see where the error is. Also (this is boring but important, because the next crash WILL happen sometime): backup your files. Regularly. Really. Good luck Matthias ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
