You can more or less use the old fashioned way by just using fields rather than the linked files in the side panes. Turn off automatic conversion in the preferences. It will be less secure, in particular when you use separate synchronized systems (because you will lose information about the file’s locations). And you will lose some added benefits, because BibDesk is now mainly geared towards linked files and path based fields are deprecated.
Christiaan > On Nov 12, 2015, at 0:33, macula <ir...@me.com> wrote: > > 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 [hidden email] > <x-msg://3/user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=7578372&i=0> 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 > > Bibdesk-users mailing list > [hidden email] <x-msg://3/user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=7578372&i=1> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users > <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users> > If you reply to this email, your message will be added to the discussion > below: > http://bibdesk-users.661331.n2.nabble.com/Bibdesk-URLs-keep-changing-when-I-save-on-different-machines-tp7578370p7578371.html > > <http://bibdesk-users.661331.n2.nabble.com/Bibdesk-URLs-keep-changing-when-I-save-on-different-machines-tp7578370p7578371.html> > To unsubscribe from Bibdesk-URLs keep changing when I save on different > machines, visit <applewebdata://97741C15-6229-42C1-8E2A-EE2BCCF42BE1> > <applewebdata://97741C15-6229-42C1-8E2A-EE2BCCF42BE1>Yannis Rammos > — > Doctoral Candidate, New York University > <applewebdata://97741C15-6229-42C1-8E2A-EE2BCCF42BE1>[hidden email] > <x-msg://3/user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=7578372&i=2> > twitter.com/YannisRammos <http://twitter.com/YannisRammos>
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