Re: [Bibdesk-users] Improving compatibility with Dropbox when annotating PDFs

2013-09-03 Thread Jeremy Van Cleve
Hi all, Like Graham, I have encountered this situation quite often when leaving BibDesk open on my laptop and then highlighting a PDF on my iPad. Once I sync my PDF collection back to Dropbox so that my highlights are available on my laptop, I often lose the link to the PDF in BibDesk. While t

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Improving compatibility with Dropbox when annotating PDFs

2013-09-03 Thread Fischlin Andreas
Dear Graham, I have not responded when you contacted BibDesk developers on this. But I wish to do this now by making two points: First, I understand that this problem is annoying, however, I doubt it can be solved, or better, I do not think this should be solved by BibDesk. Rather this appears

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Improving compatibility with Dropbox when annotating PDFs

2013-09-03 Thread Graham Dennis
Hi Andreas, Dropbox's behaviour is a feature, not a bug. Consider the following sequence of events: 1. User opens file A.txt (hosted in Dropbox) on computer #1 and begins to edit the document. 2. The same or different user opens the same file on computer #2, edits the file A.txt and saves the

[Bibdesk-users] Improving compatibility with Dropbox when annotating PDFs

2013-09-03 Thread Graham Dennis
Hi, There's an interaction problem between BibDesk and Dropbox which causes BibDesk to lose its link to files stored in Dropbox if those files are annotated on computer #2 while BibDesk is running on computer #1. If you later save the library in BibDesk on computer #1, the link will be changed to