Re: [Bibdesk-users] orphaned file search

2015-03-16 Thread Jan David Hauck
That's a great workaround. Thank you! On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 3:59 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: > > On Mar 16, 2015, at 11:52, Christiaan Hofman wrote: > > > On Mar 16, 2015, at 6:43, Jan David Hauck wrote: > > Hello, > > I recently did an orphaned file search since my my mac had messed up some

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Connection to linked files lost.

2015-03-16 Thread Zvi Biener
Ahh, thanks Christian. I just send an email with a question you just answered! I understand now. Thanks! Zvi On 16 Mar 2015, at 17:38, Christiaan Hofman wrote: > On Mar 16, 2015, at 21:33, Zvi Biener wrote: > >> Dear BiBDeskers, >> >> Perhaps someone could help me. >> 1. I had to restore my ent

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Connection to linked files lost.

2015-03-16 Thread Zvi Biener
Hi Folks, After mucking around for a bit, I found a slightly older backup of my .bib file. Oddly, this one gets the links to the restored file depository just fine (I'm glad I opened it -- I really didn't think this would make a difference). SO, crisis averted. But I don't really understand how

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Connection to linked files lost.

2015-03-16 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Mar 16, 2015, at 21:33, Zvi Biener wrote: > Dear BiBDeskers, > > Perhaps someone could help me. > 1. I had to restore my entire directory of auto-filed documents from > backup. (What I say below below applies both to restoring from > TimeMachine and from Box.com backups). > 2. After I did t

[Bibdesk-users] Connection to linked files lost.

2015-03-16 Thread Zvi Biener
Dear BiBDeskers, Perhaps someone could help me. 1. I had to restore my entire directory of auto-filed documents from backup. (What I say below below applies both to restoring from TimeMachine and from Box.com backups). 2. After I did this, I lost all the links between items in the .bib library

Re: [Bibdesk-users] orphaned file search

2015-03-16 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Mar 16, 2015, at 11:52, Christiaan Hofman wrote: > > On Mar 16, 2015, at 6:43, Jan David Hauck wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I recently did an orphaned file search since my my mac had messed up some >> files and created duplicates of some of my pdfs after some home folder >> permissions issue

Re: [Bibdesk-users] orphaned file search

2015-03-16 Thread Jan Jakob Bornheim
A workaround: When you choose to autofile, BibDesk seems to move the PDF and the corresponding Skim file. So what you could do is temporarily change the folder files get filed to, autofile all publications in your database, and delete the remaining files in the old folder. Then change the autof

Re: [Bibdesk-users] orphaned file search

2015-03-16 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Mar 16, 2015, at 6:43, Jan David Hauck wrote: > Hello, > > I recently did an orphaned file search since my my mac had messed up some > files and created duplicates of some of my pdfs after some home folder > permissions issue related to a cloud storage folder. I quickly wanted to > find