On Sep 5, 2014, at 16:32, Ken Mankoff wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to improve my auto-file setup. I was just editing the format
> string and BibDesk crashed. I can re-open it, but as soon as I bring up the
> Preferences dialog, it crashes again. I have restored the following two files
> from backups into ~/Library/Preferences but it still crashes if I try to open
> the Pref window: edu.ucsd.cs.mmccrack.bibdesk.LSSharedFileList.plist
> edu.ucsd.cs.mmccrack.bibdesk.plist
>
> Any advice how to get BibDesk working again? I can send the log if that would
> help.
>
Unfortunately removing the pref file does not work on 10.9. You can reset the
preferences to the default only using the command line and the command
"defaults delete -app Bibdesk". Though that does not allow you to get your old
preferences back. Though perhaps you may ant to reset just a particular key if
you know what causes the problem. Though I cannot say this from your post. What
does the crash report say?
>
> Secondly, my motivation for editing the format script...
>
> Currently I use(d) this format:
>
> %a11/%a1/%a1_%Y_%T3%n0%e
>
> Which files things here:
>
> ~/Documents/Papers/M/McCracken/McCracken_2004_BibDesk, a great application.pdf
>
> I'd like to make a few improvements to this including:
> + Replace space with "_"
> + Remove comma
>
> I can do the former with I think this updated string (I can't test it for the
> above reasons, but I played around with this last night):
>
> %a11/%a1/%a1_%Y_%w{Title}[ ][/][_]3%n0%e
>
> Which I recall generated something like this:
>
> ~/Documents/Papers/M/McCracken/McCracken_2004_BibDesk,_a_great.pdf
>
> The issue here is the comma is still annoying for a filename, and the %T3 is
> more intelligent about the definition of 3 words, while %w{Title}3 is not as
> intelligent.
>
> Is there a way to get "%T3" to drop commas? Is there or could there be a
> global option for "replace whitespace with underscore" the way there is a
> global option for "lowercase"?
>
Sorry, that is not possible. Unfortunately we cannot fine tune to handle every
single character, we only do that for some characters because they do create
actual problems.
> Thanks for any help you can provide, especially on the first part - getting
> BibDesk working again.
>
> -k.
Christiaan
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