> On Aug 31, 2020, at 20:28 , Ed Summers <e...@pobox.com> wrote:
> 
> I feel like this might be a perennial question, but is there a way to convert 
> a Bdsk-File-N values into an actual system path?

Recent versions of BibDesk just use “base 64” encoding.

Feed the string *between* the “ = “ and first “}” to base64.  Colons are used 
in place of “/“ in the file name.

For example:
$ base64 -d < 
….
^D
:Users:Foobar:…

HTH

Justin

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