(Largely redundant with what has been said)
My own strategy for both merging and duplicate-search goes through keywords:
- Merging: each file got a file:Cancer / file:Health / etc. keyword.
- Duplicates: select all duplicates, assign them a "Duplicate"
keyword, and spend a few minutes deleting wh
On 24 Aug 2007, at 10:05 PM, Chris Goedde wrote:
> On Aug 24, 2007, at 2:49 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
>
>> The reason is very simple: I don't have Category as a default field,
>> so on my side this field is ignored for comparison for equivalence,
>> while with your settings the category field
On Aug 24, 2007, at 2:49 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
> The reason is very simple: I don't have Category as a default field,
> so on my side this field is ignored for comparison for equivalence,
> while with your settings the category field is compared because it is
> a default field. As I mention
On 24 Aug 2007, at 9:41 PM, Chris Goedde wrote:
> On Aug 24, 2007, at 2:16 PM, Goldstein, Adam wrote:
>
>> Are the records identified as identical if you drag-and-drop them
>> into the same bib file, if you use the "select duplicates" function
>> from the menus? This also might narrow down the so
On Aug 24, 2007, at 2:16 PM, Goldstein, Adam wrote:
> Are the records identified as identical if you drag-and-drop them
> into the same bib file, if you use the "select duplicates" function
> from the menus? This also might narrow down the source of the
> problem---is it in the external file
Perhaps it's related to encoding or line endings or something. You
could try to save copies and merge the copies.
Christiaan
On 24 Aug 2007, at 9:07 PM, Chris Goedde wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I still can't seem to merge my bib files without also merging the
> duplicates, so I'm looking for ideas on
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Hi all,
I still can't seem to merge my bib files without also merging the
dupli
Hi all,
I still can't seem to merge my bib files without also merging the
duplicates, so I'm looking for ideas on what might be going wrong.
I'm adding one bib file to another as an external group and then
using the Database > Merge in External Publications menu item. When I
do it, it merg
On 8/23/07, Christiaan Hofman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> On 23 Aug 2007, at 10:58 PM, Chris Goedde wrote:
>
> > On Aug 23, 2007, at 3:41 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
> >
> >> I just did the following:
> >>
> >> Open optics.bib
> >> Add a new External File Group for Bibliography.bib and select
On 23 Aug 2007, at 10:58 PM, Chris Goedde wrote:
> On Aug 23, 2007, at 3:41 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
>
>> I just did the following:
>>
>> Open optics.bib
>> Add a new External File Group for Bibliography.bib and select it
>> Select all items
>> Choose Database > Merge In External Items.
>>
>>
On 23 Aug 2007, at 10:20 PM, Chris Goedde wrote:
>>
>> Probably the duplicates are not really duplicates, in that there is
>> some difference. We check whether the standard fields (required,
>> optional, or default fields) are the same to check for duplicates. We
>> don't check the cite key. So i
>
> Probably the duplicates are not really duplicates, in that there is
> some difference. We check whether the standard fields (required,
> optional, or default fields) are the same to check for duplicates. We
> don't check the cite key. So it may also depend on how far they
> differ. Does checkin
On 23 Aug 2007, at 9:59 PM, Chris Goedde wrote:
> On Aug 23, 2007, at 2:40 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
>
>>
>> On 23 Aug 2007, at 9:26 PM, Chris Goedde wrote:
>>> I don't quite understand this. If I select all the items in the
>>> external file group, how do I merge them? There's no "merge"
>>>
On Aug 23, 2007, at 2:40 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
>
> On 23 Aug 2007, at 9:26 PM, Chris Goedde wrote:
>> I don't quite understand this. If I select all the items in the
>> external file group, how do I merge them? There's no "merge"
>> contextual menu item.
>>
>> Chris
>
> There is one (even 3
On 23 Aug 2007, at 9:26 PM, Chris Goedde wrote:
> On Aug 23, 2007, at 1:58 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
>
>
>> For now you could select all items in the external file group and
>> merge in the selected item. You can then even create a group of them
>> immediately (though this also does not seem
On Aug 23, 2007, at 1:58 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
> For now you could select all items in the external file group and
> merge in the selected item. You can then even create a group of them
> immediately (though this also does not seem to work for field groups
> either).
I don't quite unders
On 23 Aug 2007, at 8:50 PM, Chris Goedde wrote:
>> Alternatively, you can add a (temporary) external file group for the
>> second (and third etc) file and merge in the items from that group
>> (through the contextual menu for the external file group), which will
>> ignore duplicates. You could th
> Alternatively, you can add a (temporary) external file group for the
> second (and third etc) file and merge in the items from that group
> (through the contextual menu for the external file group), which will
> ignore duplicates. You could then easily go to the Last Import group
> to add the ite
On Thursday, August 23, 2007, at 10:21AM, "Christiaan Hofman" <[EMAIL
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>
>On 23 Aug 2007, at 7:05 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
>
>>
>> On Thursday, August 23, 2007, at 09:58AM, "Chris Goedde"
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Second, what's the best way to remove duplicates? I
On 23 Aug 2007, at 7:05 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
>
> On Thursday, August 23, 2007, at 09:58AM, "Chris Goedde"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> What's a good way to merge bib files? I have seven or eight, and I'd
>> like to combine them into a single file. My two main concerns are
osophy
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On Thursday, August 23, 2007, at 09:58AM, "Chris Goedde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>What's a good way to merge bib files? I have seven or eight, and I'd
>like to combine them into a single file. My two main concerns are:
>(a) maintaining/enhancing my current categorization, and (
Hi all,
What's a good way to merge bib files? I have seven or eight, and I'd
like to combine them into a single file. My two main concerns are:
(a) maintaining/enhancing my current categorization, and (b)
efficiently removing duplicates.
For example, my current bib files have names like "op
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