To all the good folks who are coming to my aid. I forgot to mention an important detail in my original post. I have at least 30 backups of my BibDesk file (I use time machine) and another half dozen on an office backup hard drive (the word "backup" is a mantra in my lab). I get the spinning beach ball even when I open up a fresh EMPTY BibDesk file. I have tried installing a new copy of BibDesk several times, but the problem remains. Hopefully this new info will help. Thanks
Niels On May 3, 2010, at 1:27 AM, Matthias Brennwald wrote: > 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 Niels Waller, Professor Director of Quantitative/Psychometric Methods Department of Psychology N218 Elliott Hall University of Minnesota 75 East River Road Minneapolis Minnesota 55455 Phone: (612) 626-8729 Email: [email protected] Homepage: http://www.psych.umn.edu/faculty/waller/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
