Would it be helpful to publish the algorithm how the string is computed? That way someone enterprising might reverse engineer something to modify them in Perl or Python or whatnot?
el — Sent from Dr Lisse’s iPad Mini 5 On 26 Dec 2019, 14:56 +0200, "M. Tamer Özsu" via Bibdesk-users <bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net>, wrote: > Thanks Christiaan. I noticed they were not in human-readable format when I > opened the file with a text editor. However, when I asked it to Convert File > and URL Fields it complained about a few and showed the Local-url field as a > readable (and fixable) field, so I thought perhaps there is something that I > did not understand. > > Back to doing these manually since the relative paths will not stay the same. > With recent Dropbox change of not following symlinks from the Dropbox folder, > I had to move things around to get them synced. > > Thanks again. > > ==Tamer > > > On Dec 26, 2019, at 03:42, Christiaan Hofman <cmhof...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > They are nit fields, at least not in the running app. And when they are > > saved, they are not in a human readable format. > > > > Probably the best you can do is move back the files. Then check whether the > > files are found, and best is to save and close the database if they are. > > Then move al files, papers and database, to where you want them to be, but > > such that the relative path between them remains the same. Then open the > > database, check the links, and if the are ok save it. > > > > What is important is that when you move either the papers or the database, > > either the relative paths, the absolute paths of the linked files, or the > > file objects remain the same. You broke all three of them. > > _______________________________________________ > > Bibdesk-users mailing list > > Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users > > _______________________________________________ > Bibdesk-users mailing list > Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
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