On Dec 11, 2012, at 0:04, Dr. Adam M. Goldstein PhD MSLIS wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I just uploaded my Papers directory to an svn repository. I have the autofile
> preference set to put papers there. (To be precise, it's ~/Documents/Papers.)
Autofile has absolutely nothing to do with how linked files are found. These
preference only affect where autofiling will put the papers.
> Now I would like to create a working copy of the directory, and have the
> records in my bibliography point to the papers in the repository. I am not
> sure how to do this and I don't want to unlink all of my PDF's :)
>
Where do they point to now?
> I moved the Papers directory that was uploaded to the repository to
> Papers-old, and then created a working copy called Papers. I figured that the
> references in the records would point to the files in the working-copy-Papers
> directory, which is identical to the initial directory.
What do you mean by "identical"?
> But the records all point to the files in Papers-old. Not what I want.
>
It may depend on whether you had the .bib file open how it behaves. When the
database is open, it will try to follow the linked files as they are moved. If
the .bib file was closed, then after opening it will try to resolve the linked
files by relative path first, and then by alias.
> I had the thought of selecting all of the records with attached files and
> telling BibDesk to autofile them, but that ended up moving the linked files
> into the new directory. I think a new file name was generated as well for the
> moved file so as not to have the same one as the file already there. I
> thought it would "re-lilnk" to the files in in the working-copy-Papers
> directory.
Different files are different files. Why would it re-link to different files?
Autofile moves files to a unique location, unless it's already there.
You really have to be careful to distinguish between file objects and file
names. If you replace a file at some path, you get a different file object. If
you rename a file, you have the same file object. You are not particularly
clear about whether you are talking about paths or file objects in various
places, so you have to be more precise.
Christiaan
>
> OK, I don't know if people can follows this. If so, any help would be
> appreciated.
>
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