I moved my bibdesk database to a new mac several years ago. Since
then, the links to the many PDF files I had in the filesystem have
been cross-linked to random other files, many of them folders under
/System
I figure this has occurred because the Mac OS file numbers are still
being honoured, even though I am on a different filesystem. BibDesk is
happy and I have no "red paperclips" because all the links are "good",
but they are to the wrong files.
I can think of the following ways forward, the trouble is BibDesk
doesn't seem to offer me any of these options:
1. cause BibDesk to forget all its HFS aliases, and fall back on the
relative path method.
2. cause BibDesk to forget all the files it has linked, and then:
a. reverse the AutoFile process to re-link the appropriate files
(all my PDFs are named exactly the way AutoFile would make them)
b. use the Orphaned Files somehow to bind them up (orphaned files
doesn't work for me, perhaps because I have subdirectories under
my paper directory?)
It is frustrating to put work into organizing these files in a
database, and then not be able to use them. Does anyone have any
suggestions as to how to proceed? I don't have huge numbers of
references and papers, but doing it manually seems to be a task that I
never really have time for.
Regards,
Colin
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