> On Nov 12, 2015, at 0:04, macula <ir...@me.com> wrote: > > I have two machines with exactly the same folder hierarchy. Even their > respective drives have the same name, the only difference being the host > name, which obviously needs to be unique in the LAN. > > I sync the two instances of my database using git and GitHub. All > bibliography reside in my Dropbox and, once again, the paths are identical > on the two machines. > > However, even the slightest change on a machine, and subsequent Save, > sometimes (but not always?) changes every Bdesk-File-N link in my database. > > Any reason why this is happening? > > When I first created the database, and started using this workflow, each > machine had a differently named disk drive. I was puzzled at first, but soon > realized that this is the reason for the volatile file links. So I renamed > the drives to a common name, and I was under the impression that I had > solved the issue. Alas, not so. > > Any ideas? I am very tired of having these huge git-diffs every time I > change a single umlaut or something… > > Many thanks. > >
These links also contain alias information, which is unique to a file system, in addition to path information. Christiaan
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