Christiaan,
Allow me to respectfully contest this design decision. I can see the advantages
of the "new", alias-based system: links do not break when the file is moved
around within a given computer. But then again, they are changed whenever the
database is saved on another computer—hardly an uncommon usage scenario in
today's mobile, "cloud-y" world.
That said, Bdsk-File-N links generated on one computer are still valid, not
broken, on the other machine. This is quite curious given that, as you said,
some sort of machine-specific info is factored in to generate links. It
appears, that is, that there is a one-to-many correspondence between
human-readable and machine-readable encodings of the path.
In any case, I need to devise a solution as I cannot let my GitHub-hosted
bibliography grow at this explosive rate even after changing a single byte. One
possibility would be to replace all Bdsk-File-N links in my database with
file:/// URI's, then treat those as Bdsk-URL links (which would allow me to use
the handy sidebar to quickly open attachments). In that case I would only need
a script that would, perhaps automatically, prepend "file:///" to the path of
the file just dragged-and-dropped. Does this sound reasonable? Has anyone
attempted it before?
All in all, I am willing to sacrifice the ability to safely move files around
for the benefit of having a git-friendly workflow.
Many thanks once again.
Christiaan
On Nov 12, 2015, at 0:33, macula <[hidden email]> 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.
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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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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.
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