That is the solution I currently use. My bibtex file lives at the top of my ~/Papers directory. All the papers are auto-filed in sub-directories under that with relative paths. The whole directory is synced across multiple machines using Chronosync. Some tips to get that to work: Make sure you have the same Auto-file preferences on all machines. To get all entries changed from absolute to relative paths take these steps: 1) Change the auto-file preference settings to relative. 2) Select all papers and choose Publication->Consolidate Linked Files If the path for some or all papers would stay the same (that is, the location of the files on disk does not need to change to match the new Auto-file settings) you will have to temporarily change the auto-file settings (for example by prepending a 'temp' to all file names), select 'Consolidate Linked Files', change the auto-file setting back, consolidate again. That will ensure that all absolute links actually get converted to relative links.
Actually, since the developers are reading here too: It would be nice to change this behaviour and automatically convert all links to relative or absolute depending on the preference setting. Hendrik On 9-Nov-07, at 11:16 AM, Christiaan Hofman cmhofman-at-gmail.com | Sourceforge| wrote: > > On 9 Nov 2007, at 7:44 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: > >> >> On Friday, November 09, 2007, at 10:33AM, "Mark Eli Kalderon" >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Is there a way for the local urls to work with tilde expansion? I >>> have a bib file that I keep in a subversion repository and would >>> like >>> to use on multiple computers and while the home directories are >>> mirrored the usernames and hence the full paths differ (not my >>> choice). That means the local urls are broken on the new computer. >>> Any ideas about how to work around this? >> >> Tilde abbreviated paths should work just fine. If I replace >> >> file://localhost/Volumes/Local/amaxwell >> >> with "~", everything works as it should. You can go through and >> change entries in bulk using the find & replace panel. I'm not >> sure how (or if) AutoFile works with tilde, though; as far as I >> recall it creates an absolute or document-relative path. >> >> -- >> adam > > AutoFile does never generate tilde path. It can however generate > paths relative to the folder containing the .bib file. > > Christiaan > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
