On 16 Jan 2008, at 6:14 AM, Daniel Becker wrote: > Am 15.01.2008 um 11:40 schrieb Christiaan Hofman: > >>> 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). > > Ok - can do that manually, there are not too many... >
Note that to help you, you can add a smart group for Local File, which can easily find entries with more than one linked file. >> >>> 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. > > yes - raising an alert with the possibility to disable it sounds > good. In ITunes, you get two warnings: One when you delete an entry > and another that asks whether you want the local mp3-files be moved > to trash as well. > I think the mp3 file is much more private to iTunes than the linked files are to BibDesk. As a case in point, iTunes music files are always auto-filed and this is not user configurable. So I don't think we should offer the choice to move to trash. It's more annoying than helpful. >> >> We thought that Delete is pretty obvious for deleting as it is >> ubiquitous. We could add it to the context menu though. > > I think it wouldn't hurt to have it in the context menu. To me > looking at context menus is a common way to find out what the > possibilities of an application are. > > Thanks > > Daniel I just added it to the context menu yesterday. 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 [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
