On 15 Jan 2008, at 11:14 AM, Daniel Becker wrote: > hallo list, > > after moving to the new framework for local files (which I like a > lot), I have a lot of duplicate entries for local files and remote > urls like this one: > > Local-Url: > ~/My/Path/downloads/CizekHardleWeron2005 > > Url: > http://www.xplore-stat.de/ebooks/scripts/stf/html/stfhtml.html > > Local files: > ~/My/Path/downloads/CizekHardleWeron2005 > ~/My/Path/downloads/CizekHardleWeron2005 > ~/My/Path/downloads/CizekHardleWeron2005 > > Remote URLs: > http://www.xplore-stat.de/ebooks/scripts/stf/html/stfhtml.html > > I guess I did something not very clever at one step. >
It's not something you did. Probably these linked files are folders? In the current release there is a bug that does not recognize duplicate folders (because there may or may not be an extra "/" added at the end). This is fixed in the latest nightlies, so you may want to download that one (the current one should be stable). > Question 1: Is there a way to clean this up for the whole database? > As for the old style fields, you can choose Database > Convert File and URL Fields. There you can specify which fields should be removed. You can do this any time you like, even after the automatic transition has already been done. You should have gotten this option through an alert the first time you opened a database after upgrading. As for the duplicate folders, you need to do this manually (or using an AppleScript if you know how to work with that). > Question 2: Could an option "Remove file" be a added to the context- > menu when I right-click on a file-icon in the file view in the right > pane when I am looking at the list view? The only way to remove one > of those duplicates seems to be to open the entry and then to edit > the local files. Then the context menu has "move to trash" but this > removes not only the local file entry but also moves the file to > trash. Could there be a warning as in ITunes? The only way I found > out to remove a local file entry without moving the files to trash is > opening an entry, selecting the file icon in the file view pane on > the right, ignoring the "move to trash" thing but hitting delete > (this does never move the files to trash). I think the difference > between deleting with and without moving the files to trash is a > hiden feature that could be more obvious. > I would say the menu title "Move to Trash" should be clear in what it does. I'm sure users will complain if it would raise an alert, though we could perhaps add an option to disable that as for deleting publications. We thought that Delete is pretty obvious for deleting as it is ubiquitous. We could add it to the context menu though. > Sorry I didn't notice earlier or if this has been discussed earlier. > > Daniel Some of it has. There is also some description in the Help. Christiaan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
