Thanks, Christiaan. Is it possible to revert to old-fashioned plaintext
paths? Clearly, many of us work on more than one machine, with syncing
via git, the cloud or some other process, and I'm sure I am not the only
one who wishes there was a more ecological way to handle changes.
Perhaps a workflow that hasn't occurred to me?
Cheers.
>> 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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