Re: [Bibdesk-users] Move from Dropbox to iCloud

2020-10-12 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Yes, you understand this correctly. Be aware though that after syncing between different computers the aliases probably won't work, so moving the file behind BibDesk may lose the link. Christiaan Op ma 12 okt. 2020 17:52 schreef Jan David Hauck via Bibdesk-users <

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Move from Dropbox to iCloud

2020-10-12 Thread Jan David Hauck via Bibdesk-users
Hi everyone, I have a follow-up question to this discussion. Following Christiaan’s explanations about how to best go about moving files, am I understanding correctly that as long as either the relative file path or the file identity is kept intact, BibDesk will correctly be able to figure out

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Move from Dropbox to iCloud

2020-10-09 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Are all of the directories on the same volume (dropbox, iCloud, and database)? First make sure Dropbox has not replaced any file behind your back while the database was open. Probbaly it is best to just freshly (re)open your database in BibDesk, to make sure the aliases and relative paths are

[Bibdesk-users] Move from Dropbox to iCloud

2020-10-09 Thread Simon Spiegel
Hi everyone, for years I have been relying on a setup where BibDesk would autofill all my publications to a Dropbox folder; this has worked well, but now my Dropbox is reaching its capacity limits and I am considering to move everything to iCloud where I still have much space left. Now the