HI Kyle,
This solved my problems
Thanks,
M
> On Mar 9, 2021, at 11:49 PM, Kyle Meyer <k...@kyleam.com> wrote:
>
> Marvin M. Doyley writes:
>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> When I use crossref-add-bibtex-entry it download the BibTeX entry but cannot
>> download the associated pdf.
>> I get the following error (wrong-type-argument stringp
>> ("/Users/doyley/Dropbox/Filing_Cabinet/B/refs/pdf/“))
>>
>> I configured org-ref as follows
>>
>> (setq org-ref-bibliography-notes
>> '("/Users/doyley/Dropbox/Filing_Cabinet/B/refs/ref_notes.org")
>> org-ref-default-bibliography
>> '("/Users/doyley/Dropbox/Filing_Cabinet/B/refs/ref.bib")
>> org-ref-pdf-directory
>> '("/Users/doyley/Dropbox/Filing_Cabinet/B/refs/pdf/")
>> org-ref-notes-citation-link '("cite")
>> )
>
> [ Caveat: I've never used org-ref ]
>
> org-ref's 0383cc2 (support multiple pdf directories, 2016-06-10) updated
> org-ref-pdf-directory to accept a list value, so your value is valid,
> but...
>
>> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp
>> ("/Users/doyley/Dropbox/Filing_Cabinet/B/refs/pdf/"))
>> file-name-as-directory(("/Users/doyley/Dropbox/Filing_Cabinet/B/refs/pdf/"))
>> doi-utils-get-bibtex-entry-pdf(nil)
>
> ... doi-utils-get-bibtex-entry-pdf wasn't updated for that (+cc the
> author of that commit and John Kitchin).
>
> It looks like org-ref-pdf-directory still supports a string, though, and
> you only have one item, so you should be able to work around the issue
> with
>
> (setq org-ref-pdf-directory
> "/Users/doyley/Dropbox/Filing_Cabinet/B/refs/pdf/")
