Another way to do this is using AppleScript. You can select all items with cite
key containing a colon:
tell document 1 of application "BibDesk"
select (every publication whose cite key contains ":")
end tell
And similar with “does not contain” instead of “contains". You can then put the
selection in a static group, or export the selection, or whatever you want.
BTW, script groups would not be of any help, these are for external data
generated by a script, not for scripts processing the internal data.
Christiaan
> On 22 Jul 2018, at 23:06, John Clegg <jjcl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks! That’s not exactly what I need, but it could be really helpful.
>
>> On Jul 22, 2018, at 3:51 PM, Stephan Kurz <stephan.k...@univie.ac.at
>> <mailto:stephan.k...@univie.ac.at>> wrote:
>>
>> Trying to think of possible reasons on what you want/need to achieve, I'm
>> chiming in with another suggestion:
>> If all you need is a bibliography containing all references you actually
>> used in your dissertation, you could try dropping your document's (main)
>> .aux file onto BibDesk's main table (after compilation); this selects all
>> used entries. Then copy and paste into a new document.
>>
>> Good luck,
>> Stephan
>>
>> Am 2018-07-22 um 22:02 schrieb Adam R. Maxwell via Bibdesk-users:
>>>> On Jul 22, 2018, at 10:50 , John Clegg <jjcl...@gmail.com
>>>> <mailto:jjcl...@gmail.com> <mailto:jjcl...@gmail.com
>>>> <mailto:jjcl...@gmail.com>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> My problem is that at some point in the past I merged two large
>>>> bibliography files and I now need to unmerge them. Specifically I need to
>>>> delete all references that came from one of the two original files.
>>> Can you use the "Item number" field for this purpose? You'd just have to
>>> find the cutoff point for your original file, sorting by item number.
>>> -- adam
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