Ah — thanks very much. You were right that a necessary field was missing. I have AutoFile set to 'Author + “/“ + 15 words from the title + unique number + extension’, and it was an edited book that did not have an author. Because this occurs infrequently, I had forgotten about the need to temporarily put the first editor as the author when attaching the file.
Best wishes, Jason On 20 Jan 2023, at 10:45, Christiaan Hofman <cmhof...@gmail.com<mailto:cmhof...@gmail.com>> wrote: This should still be working, I don’t recall even changing anything on the feature. Does your AutoFile preference say it should file the papers in a specified location, and does this location exist? And are all relevant fields filled in the item for which you attach a PDF? Christiaan On 20 Jan 2023, at 09:57, Alexander,J <ja...@lse.ac.uk<mailto:ja...@lse.ac.uk>> wrote: Just a quick follow-up: the preferences are still there under AutoFile, but it doesn’t seem to be working. When I drag-and-drop a file, or right click and select a file to attach, it just leaves the file in its original location. J On 20 Jan 2023, at 08:48, Alexander,J <ja...@lse.ac.uk<mailto:ja...@lse.ac.uk>> wrote: It seems that a bug might have appeared in the most recent release of BibDesk. Previously, whenever I attached a PDF to a bibliography entry, it would automatically move the file and save a copy to a specified directory using the template: ..specified folder…/surname of first author/first few words appearing in the title.pdf That was really useful, because I could specify the folder my Dropbox, and so the attached article/book would automatically copy to all my computers. I just tried attaching a PDF to an entry, and I noticed that it left the PDF in its original location. When I checked the preferences, I couldn’t see any preference that corresponded to the previous behaviour of BibDesk — i.e., automatically moving the file to a new location and renaming it. Has the previous capability been removed? Many thanks, Jason _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
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