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 merging or not?
I'm calling the MacArthur Foundation and nominating Adam Goldstein for a "genius" award! The answer is very simple. I'm not sure if it reveals a bug/ misfeature in bibdesk or not. In preparation for the merge, I did as Adam Maxwell suggested and created a bibtex field (that I called "Category") in the bibdesk preferences, and clicked the "Is Default" button. I then filled this in for every record in one of the bib files, but forgot to do it in the second. Bibdesk thought the records were different because one had and empty "Category" field and one did not. There's one thing I don't understand, which is why Christiaan didn't have the same problem I did when merging. Does bibdesk just ignore added fields if they aren't defined in the preferences? That seems wrong to me. Also, this seems like a problem for my merging process. If I'm merging file foo.bib and file bar.bib, and I assign all the records in file foo the Category Foo and all the records in file bar the Category Bar, I want some way to manage the merge so that I don't get tons of duplicates. In other words, I _want_ bibdesk to identify two records as duplicates if they are identical except for this field. Is there a way to accomplish that? Alternatively, is there a way to tell the merge process precisely how to identify duplicates (i.e. by cite key only)? Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
