> On 6 Mar 2017, at 08:53, Brandon Payne <payn...@outlook.com> wrote:
>
> I use AutoFile with %f{Cite Key}%u0.pdf
>
> Because of lack of space I moved all my pdfs from
>
> /Volumes/A/pdfs/ to
> /Volumes/B/pdfs/ then symlinked them
>
> back to the old location.
> Now all my pdfs are Question Marks and don't open from bibdesk.
>
> Any solution?
> I'm happy for a fix in perl, ruby, python, whatever is quick.
How and whether you can fix this depends on what you have done in the mean time
with the .bib file, whether you saved compromised data. So I cannot say in
general how to do that.
You should realise that BibDesk keeps three pieces of data for linked file: a
relative path, an absolute path, and a file identifier. The problem is that for
you the file identifier is basically useless, because you use an external
volume, and moreover, you changed that, so the identifiers were changed. You
definitely changed the absolute paths. And I suspect you also changed the
relative paths. So any link to the files was broken. (I am quite frankly still
a bit surprised when users expect BibDesk to be able too find back linked files
when they so rigorously move them).
As BibDesk first looks at relative paths, I would first try to arrange things
so that the *relative* path between the .bib file and the PDFs is the same as
the last time you saved the .bib file when the links were still working.
Otherwise, you may want to move things back so the absolute paths are the same
as that time. You may also want to use a backup of the .bib file when you do
that.
If all of this does not work, you will have to link them back manually. The
Orphaned Files feature may help a bit.
BTW, the AutoFile format is completely irrelevant, that has no bearing on
finding the files, that’s only used when you auto-file the linked files.
Christiaan
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