I did not have this problem. Since PocketBib is unfortunately no longer on my iPad I cannot verify exactly what I did. Maybe you need the google drive app installed on your device and also be logged in?
On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 10:21 AM Daniel Becker <d.bec...@jpberlin.de> wrote: > > I had to give up pocketbib because syncing with Dropbox no longer works. How > did you manage to set up a connection between google drive and pocketbib? I > always get > > 403 Error: disallowed_useragent > > and I didn't find a way to solve that. > > It really is too bad that pocketbib is no longer working. Of course there are > alternatives when it comes to reading and annotating PDFs, but pocketbib has > been incredibly useful to find entries and associated PDFs in the the > bibdesk/bibtex database ... > > Daniel > > > > Am 06.09.2018 um 21:45 schrieb Morten Risager <mrisa...@gmail.com>: > > > > Dropbox certainly ceased to work in Pocketbib after the Dropbox API > > changed. However, Google drive still works beautifully though so for > > those of us using Google drive it is still immensely useful. If I > > could only get it installed on my Ipad again. > > On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 8:57 PM Glenn Hoetker via Bibdesk-users > > <bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > >> > >> I believe that PocketBib was not updated to adjust for a change in the > >> Dropbox API, which reduced its usefulness. Whether that led directly to > >> it being removed from the App Store or not, I don’t know, but I think it > >> was an indication that the developer was no longer supporting the > >> application. > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> Sent from my iPad > >> > >>> On Sep 6, 2018, at 5:58 AM, Marc <brouard.m...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> > >>> Currently using PocketBib on an old iPad. This has been working great. I > >>> will need to upgrade at some stage and not looking forward to it. The > >>> whole reason I bought the iPad was to read papers, annotate them and sync > >>> back to my main computer. > >>> > >>> I don’t suppose anybody knows why PocketBib was removed from the App > >>> Store? > >>> > >>>> On 1 Sep 2018, at 13:47, Morten Risager wrote: > >>>> > >>>> Hi list, > >>>> > >>>> To cut to the point: Has any iPad user found a good way to access bibtex > >>>> files incl. links on their iPads? > >>>> > >>>> I realize that this is not strictly speaking a Bibdesk question, so if > >>>> this > >>>> considered inappropriate I apologize beforehand. > >>>> > >>>> Backstory: > >>>> I am a happy Bibdesk user for some 10+ years. I have been using Pocketbib > >>>> on iPad for several years to access my Bibdesk generated bibtex file with > >>>> links to Google drive hosted pdfs. Its been *great* to have easy ipad > >>>> access to my huge article and book collection. > >>>> > >>>> Recently I had to reinstall my iPad from scratch. I had not realised that > >>>> Pocketbib had been pulled from the app store, and that the iPad backups > >>>> no > >>>> longer contains backups of the actual program. So it seems I can no > >>>> longer > >>>> get Pocketbib on my iPad. Of course I can still access the pdfs using the > >>>> Google Drive app but it is just so much more cumbersome than the previous > >>>> solution. > >>>> > >>>> Best > >>>> Morten > >>>> > >>>> PS: I realize that at some point there were some attempt to make a > >>>> Bibdesk > >>>> for ios, but if I understand correctly it has very low priority. 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