Christiaan Hofman wrote: >> 2. Subsidiary question: while at it, would it be possible for me to >> switch from having, *written in the .bib file* a Local-Url like >> >> file://localhost/Volumes/Home/FZ/Documents/Archive/<etc>, (**) >> >> to something more portable > > The local URL fields accept all kinds of values, file URLs, absolute paths, > relative paths from the database, and tilde-abbreviated. To convert you could > use a (apple)script or the Database Find and Replace feature.
Thank you! This solves my problem #2. I hadn't realized that I should simply edit the field to something other than what BibDesk writes on autofile. That was instant to do with find & replace in a text editor. I still had to use a more pedestrian process to URL-decode all spaces and diacritics (ah Pavel Šťovíček...), and guess I'll have to keep doing so from now on. While that would make "Local-URL" a misnomer, it would seem more logical if BibDesk simply didn't URL-encode at all, when what I write in AutoFile Preferences (viz., ~/Documents/Math/Archive) doesn't look like the beginning of an URL... >> 1. Main question: is there a simple edit I could make to turn off the >> aliases and stay with the old "Local-Url" method of filing? (I'm willing >> to compile Bibdesk if necessary.) >> > > Default Fields Preferences, uncheck automatic conversion. > > However you wont be able to use several features, such as auto filing and > dropping files, except from applescript. That's a bummer, because filing by dropping is (for me) BibDesk's #1 nicest feature -- and, my experience with applescript is nil. Are you saying that the entire functionality *can* be restored via applescript? If so, I'll try to learn how. If not, would you say that I'm better off just staying with 1.3.12 indefinitely? Thanks again, Francois ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
