On 16 Jan 2008, at 10:04 AM, Holger Frauenrath wrote: > Hi Adam, Christiaan > >> Ewww, automount. Last I worked with that was on Linux, and I had >> to set up NIS at the same time; I never tried adding non-Linux >> systems into the mix, though. Are you using NIS as well? (not >> that it should matter...) I generally used netatalk or samba to >> share from Linux/FreeBSD to OS X. > > Yes we are using NIS, and our IT department really has a lot of work > (and does a good job) with our very heterogenous network. Just as one > interesting tidbit: we currently mount our home directories on the > Macs remotely via NIS/NFS from a Linux server and we are, at the same > time, able to use Windows under Parallels (or VMware) which loads our > home directories to "My Documents" using SMB. Even more complex, we > run certain proprietary software (belonging to an instrument) on a > UNIX emulator in Windows using Parallels on a Mac, all with this > network setup. I am pretty amazed that all of this actually works > seamlessly ... > > If you are interested in this sort of things: the IT guys told me > they were really happy with the changes to automounting in Leopard. > If I understood correctly, Netinfo and the old method of automounting > are no longer, and Leopard uses the "standard" automounter instead > that is also used in Solaris, for example (so I was told). > > Sorry for these off-topic remarks. Now, for the important stuff. > > The good news is: the conversion worked as advertised when I tried it > today. I don't know what I did wrong the first time around (and I > really assume that it was my own fault). After the conversion, the > links show up in the "Local File" column, and the files are shown in > the preview column. The old paths are still in "local-url", unless > you uncheck "Keep local url" in the conversion dialog. >
Good to hear that. > I am sorry that I seem to have caused some worries with my side > remark. > Well, it still should have never even been possible. > As for the AppleScript solution for my problem: thanks, Christiaan > for all the hints. I will see how far I get with them. > > Just out of curiosity: do you think an AppleScript along the lines of > "scan Literature folder for orphaned files (beginning of filename = > citekey, but no link exists) and link them to the reference" would > also be feasible? > > Thanks again > Holger That would be possible. The AppleScript you posted can be easily modified for the changes using the info I gave. If you want to do more (like finding a file that does not have exactly the right name, but only matches in a more fuzzy way), that is much harder. You'd have to loop over all the files in your papers folder as well as over all publications. That's possible with AppleScript (using Finder), but probably very slow. Christiaan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
