On Dec 7, 2010, at 3:42 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: > > On Dec 7, 2010, at 22:17, Chris Goedde wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I opened up BibDesk for the first time in a while, and all the links to PDF >> files are broken. Some point to nothing, but others seem to point to random >> files on my drive. As far as I know, I haven't moved any files or done >> anything that would break the links. The files themselves are all where they >> should be. Any ideas about what could have caused this? I'm on BD 1.5.1. >> >> Is there a way to fix this other than dragging and dropping all the files >> onto the corresponding entries? >> >> Thanks. >> >> Chris > > The first place BibDesk looks is the relative path form the database to the > linked file. So when this is broken, you must have moved either the database > or the linked files since the last time you saved the database.
You're right, I did move something. I keep my local texmf file in ~/Dropbox, with a sym link to ~/Library/texmf. I moved the texmf directory in ~/Dropbox (and fixed the sim link), so the bib file moved. So I guess what gets stored is the actual path, and that changed. This is all in the Bdsk-File-1 field, correct? Since I know the new and old paths to the bib file, is there a way to fix it? (I have "File papers in fixed location" checked, and that hasn't changed. > You may want to use Adam Maxwell's python script > http://homepage.mac.com/amaxwell/.cv/amaxwell/Sites/.Public/read_bdsk_file.py-zip.zip > to figure out precisely which relative path was saved for some linked files. Unfortunately, that gives an access denied error. Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What happens now with your Lotus Notes apps - do you make another costly upgrade, or settle for being marooned without product support? Time to move off Lotus Notes and onto the cloud with Force.com, apps are easier to build, use, and manage than apps on traditional platforms. Sign up for the Lotus Notes Migration Kit to learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/salesforce-d2d _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
