Are all of the directories on the same volume (dropbox, iCloud, and database)?
First make sure Dropbox has not replaced any file behind your back while the database was open. Probbaly it is best to just freshly (re)open your database in BibDesk, to make sure the aliases and relative paths are updated. Then you can move the files (perhaps by moving the containing folder) to the new location. Then check a bit whether BibDesk still finds the files, and save the database. After that it is probably safest to close and reopen the database again. If you want to move both the database AND the files together, keeping a fixed relative path, you can also do the following. Close the database, and just move both the files and the database (e.g. by moving the containing folder). Then open the database, check a bit whether BibDesk finds the files, and save the database. What is important is when you move you either keep the file identities fixed (i.e. make sure you files are movemoved rather than copied, note that moving between volumes is really a copy operation, and also that Dropbox has a habit of copying files behind your back). Or you keep the relative path fixed. And consolidate your changes afterwards by saving and reopening the database. And of course you may have to udate your auto file settings. Christiaan > On 9 Oct 2020, at 09:25, Simon Spiegel <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > for years I have been relying on a setup where BibDesk would autofill all my > publications to a Dropbox folder; this has worked well, but now my Dropbox is > reaching its capacity limits and I am considering to move everything to > iCloud where I still have much space left. > > Now the question is: Is there an easy and secure way to move the autofilled > files to a new place so that BibDesk will update all paths correctly? Since > we are talking about hundreds of files, it’s not something which I can do by > hand. The alternative would, of course, be to buy more space for Dropbox. > > Thanks in advance > > > Simon _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
