Re: [Bibdesk-users] Using autofile with two machines

2007-09-12 Thread Andreas Reinecke
Hi Michael, I work on different machines with specific account names as you do. However, I do not encounter your problem. My autofile preference setting are: checkbox papers folder location tagged, with an entry into the neighbouring field like ~/BIOSAFE/Literatur which in my case is the

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Using autofile with two machines

2007-09-12 Thread Christiaan Hofman
That's not correct. The tilde is there only for display, internally the full path is used. If you uncheck Papers folder location and check Use relative path for Local-Url then the auto-file feature will use a relative path for the Local-Url field (and only then). However, note that this is

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Using autofile with two machines

2007-09-12 Thread Andreas Reinecke
Well, you got me. I was not aware that on one of the three computers I work with preference settings (see below) were different from the others, which lead to my false statement. sorry andreas Am 12.09.2007 um 11:02 schrieb Christiaan Hofman: That's not correct. The tilde is there only for

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Using autofile with two machines

2007-09-12 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
On Sep 12, 2007, at 04:34, Christiaan Hofman wrote: BTW, we may have a big change in the way we handle local files in the (near?) future. And I'm not sure if saving relative paths will be compatible with those changes. I was planning to store a relative path as fallback along with the

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Using autofile with two machines

2007-09-12 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On 12 Sep 2007, at 4:25 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Sep 12, 2007, at 04:34, Christiaan Hofman wrote: BTW, we may have a big change in the way we handle local files in the (near?) future. And I'm not sure if saving relative paths will be compatible with those changes. I was planning to

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Using autofile with two machines

2007-09-12 Thread Rainer Sigwald
On 9/12/07, Michael McCracken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For what it's worth, the checkbox for 'Papers folder location' seems a little confusing to me. The tooltips are much clearer, and it'd be best if the information in the tooltip could be made obvious in the control text - that you're

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Using autofile with two machines

2007-09-12 Thread Rainer Sigwald
On 9/12/07, Adam R. Maxwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is correct. It should also be possible to keep the old system around, although I'm not sure how we'll manage autofile in that case. The only reason I can see for doing this is cross-platform compatibility; if you find using vi or

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Using autofile with two machines

2007-09-12 Thread Alexander H. Montgomery
On Sep 12, 2007, at 10:02 AM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Wednesday, September 12, 2007, at 09:48AM, Rainer Sigwald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/12/07, Adam R. Maxwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, using a document-relative path certainly makes sense in that situation. The question

[Bibdesk-users] Using autofile with two machines

2007-09-11 Thread Michael Green
I have home and work machines. I'm sold on the utility of using BibDesk to automatically file pdfs. And the default ~/Documents/ Papers directory is fine with me. However, the paths that are stored with each entry are machine specific. e.g.