On 26 Mar 2008, at 1:21 PM, Miguel Ortiz-Lombardía wrote:
Thank you, Christiaan.
Ooops, it was quite trivial.
However, I have used it as you say... and still I get almost
nothing. For example, one of my libraries has more than 400 entries.
I know I have papers for at least 50 of them, yet the File Matcher
only finds one... My script finds many. It also makes many false
positives (files linked to the wrong entry) mainly due to the fact
that 'mdfind' cannot use globbed text
Probably you find so many more matches (including many negatives) is
that you search for words in the abstract. That seems to me a very
unreliable way to match files.
and possibly some false negatives (entries not getting files that
match them) with various reasons: scanned PDFs, etc.
Those won't work in either way.
I wanted to add an entry to my script in the Wiki but I don't seem
able to create an account :-(
You need a password, I can give you one if you want (I think). I need
a username.
Christiaan
In the meantime, if someone is interested, the script can be
downloaded from:
http://www.ysbl.york.ac.uk/~mol/Another%20file%20matcher.scpt.gz
This is a brief description of the script:
This script takes a selection of publications in a BibDesk library,
asks for a folder where to look for possible files matching the
selected entries
uses 'mdfind' to try to identify these possibly matching files.
To do so, it uses the Title of the entry plus the first 90
characters in the Abstract
field of the entry as the searching argument for 'mdfind'
Of course, it works only if the title and the abstract are included
in the file.
This is the case usually for PDF files, except for scanned ones.
The script can be modified to get meaningful text from any other
field in the entries.
It can be left running unattended, in which case every file matching
the criteria is
linked to the publication. This normally results in many false
positives, but may be
useful for medium/big-size libraries. Because the files are not
autofiled, the user has
a chance to select later what to keep linked and what to unlink and,
when satisfied, to
auto file manually.
Expectedly, it's quite slow...
There is a lot of margin for improvement...
Please, use it at your own risk! Backup your library first, at
least. I'm just a novice with Applescript...
Cheers,
Miguel
2008/3/24, Christiaan Hofman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On 24 Mar 2008, at 11:20 AM, Miguel Ortiz-Lombardía wrote:
Hmm, that's what I thought. Except that I have never managed to
convince the "File Matcher" to do what I want... It indexes the
files for ages and never finds anything. And the indexation is
redone next time I look for something, so I have not a clear idea
on what's going on... I assume this must be me doing something
wrong, but I have failed to find a clear (to me) documentation for
the File Matcher in the manual or the wiki. Could you please point
me to such info?
Thanks!
You have to choose 1 or more documents you want to match to, and a
bunch of files to match (which you can add one by one or by adding
folders). The file matcher indexes the files (which takes some time,
but it happens in the background) and tries to search the index for
the title and the first author of each publication in the
document(s). It then displays the matches it finds. YMMV.
Christiaan
Miguel
2008/3/24, Christiaan Hofman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
The best place to link scripts is on the Wiki, because that will
stay around.
What you describe thugh sounds very much like the build in File
Matcher.
Christiaan
On 24 Mar 2008, at 9:35 AM, Miguel Ortiz-Lombardía wrote:
Hi all,
With Christiaan's help I managed to write an Applescript that
takes a selection of publications and searches, via the Spotlight
mdfind program, for files that may correspond to them in a
directory where I have accumulated for years PDF files with names
not following any particular rule. The script then asks me whether
to link these files or not. Being myself very unexperienced in
Applescript, I thought that someone more proficient might be
interested in the script and perhaps show a way to improve it. As
it is, it runs quite slowly, but my main concern is not that, but
the fact that BibDesk is blocked until the end of the script
execution.
My question is: may I send the script to this list or there is a
better option or a more appropriate forum?
Cheers,
Miguel
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