(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 what has to be.

Fr.

On 24/08/07, Christiaan Hofman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 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 is compared because it is
> >> a default field. As I mentioned in an earlier mail, BibDesk compares
> >> required, optional *and* default fields to determine equivalence.
> >>
> >> If you don't want the Category field to be taken into account you
> >> should not include it as a default field. You can still add the
> >> Category field or set it by adding it to a field group by drag&drop.
> >> You can also temporarily disable the default status when merging.
> >
> > Okay, what about fields like Local-Url, which is greyed-out in the
> > preferences? Does that mean that two other-wise identical records
> > with different local urls will always be judged as non-duplicates? If
> > so, is there an alternative to manual scanning for identifying such
> > records? I guess "Select Duplicates by Cite Key"?
> >
> > Chris
> >
>
> Yes, that was my suggestion in an earlier mail. BTW, if you do that
> with an external group selected it compares the external items to the
> items in your Library.
>
> Christiaan
>
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