Re: [Bibdesk-users] Converting PDF file names

[Christiaan Hofman]

> On 21 Jul 2023, at 23:27, Christiaan Hofman  wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> On 21 Jul 2023, at 18:24, Bullard, Jeff via Bibdesk-users 
>> > > wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I just opened a bibliography file on my laptop that I synced from my iMac.  
>> Everything looks good except that it changed what it thinks all the PDF file 
>> names are, from ~/Documents/reprints/McCracken-2004.pdf to 
>> ~/Documents/preprints/[Title of document].  I checked the Bibdesk settings 
>> and the autofile format string is definitely set to %a1/%a1-%Y%u0, just like 
>> it is on my iMac.  Clearly this breaks all the links to the PDFs.
>> 
>> Is there a way to do some kind of auto-renaming of all the PDF files back to 
>> the format I need?  I looked through the Settings but cannot find anything 
>> like that.  If I “Select all” the entries in my bibliography, it looks like 
>> I can invoke Publications->AutoFile File, but that seems like it is going to 
>> move all the PDFs to a different folder and I don’t see how to change the 
>> destination folder.
>> 
>> Thanks for any suggestions you might have!
>> 
>> Jeff
> 
> It is not clear to me what exactly is wrong, your description is a bit 
> confused. There was a problem with auto filing in the previous release, so 
> make sure you have the latest release. Is the problem that the PDF files or 
> their containing folders have a different name, and different from what you 
> want? And are the links still working? And what exactly is the problem with 
> Publications->AutoFile? The folder relative to which the files are filed is 
> determined by your AutoFile preferences.
> 
> Christiaan
> 


Ignore what I said that there was a problem in the previous release, there 
wasn’t (I was confused with the cite key autogeneration). 

Are you saying that the problem only is that the ‘preprints’ folder in the 
links is changed to ‘reprints’? Or is there something else? Also, are you 
tiling about the linked files (the files in the side bars), or the Local-Url 
fields? I don’t really understand what anything has to do with the auto-file 
format. Did you auto-file at some point? Or where the papers added with 
auto-file turned on? And what is the preference setting for the folder for 
auto-filing, and is that consistent on the two computers?

Christiaan

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Re: [Bibdesk-users] Converting PDF file names

[Christiaan Hofman]

> On 21 Jul 2023, at 18:24, Bullard, Jeff via Bibdesk-users 
>  wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I just opened a bibliography file on my laptop that I synced from my iMac.  
> Everything looks good except that it changed what it thinks all the PDF file 
> names are, from ~/Documents/reprints/McCracken-2004.pdf to 
> ~/Documents/preprints/[Title of document].  I checked the Bibdesk settings 
> and the autofile format string is definitely set to %a1/%a1-%Y%u0, just like 
> it is on my iMac.  Clearly this breaks all the links to the PDFs.
> 
> Is there a way to do some kind of auto-renaming of all the PDF files back to 
> the format I need?  I looked through the Settings but cannot find anything 
> like that.  If I “Select all” the entries in my bibliography, it looks like I 
> can invoke Publications->AutoFile File, but that seems like it is going to 
> move all the PDFs to a different folder and I don’t see how to change the 
> destination folder.
> 
> Thanks for any suggestions you might have!
> 
> Jeff

It is not clear to me what exactly is wrong, your description is a bit 
confused. There was a problem with auto filing in the previous release, so make 
sure you have the latest release. Is the problem that the PDF files or their 
containing folders have a different name, and different from what you want? And 
are the links still working? And what exactly is the problem with 
Publications->AutoFile? The folder relative to which the files are filed is 
determined by your AutoFile preferences.

Christiaan

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