On 29.03.2011, at 10:26, Douglas Stebila wrote:

> What, if any, is the recommended method for synchronizing BibDesk libraries 
> *and their collection of attached PDFs* between multiple computers? While 
> it's easy to synchronize the actual files -- using a network file system, 
> rsync, DropBox, etc. -- BibDesk does not seem to notice that the PDFs has 
> been synced since it stores Mac OS file aliases in the BibTeX file, as 
> opposed to say relative path names.

Actually, syncing attached files is rather simple: I just have a folder called 
'Publications' in my Dropbox and set '~/Dropbox/Publikationen' as the fixed 
location for Autofile in BibDesk. Since the paths are identical on the 
different machines, this works flawlessly.

Simon


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