> On 28 Dec 2020, at 17:15, Ronald Haynes <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi folks, so I have made some progress with links to attachments using a .bib
> file generated by zotero/better-bibtex. All entries work except for entries
> with multiple attachments. Several of my .bib entries have file fields that
> look like:
>
> /Users/rhaynes/Zotero/storage/QYXFGM6P/Peña_1995_M-matrices whose inverses
> are totally
> positive.pdf;/Users/rhaynes/Zotero/storage/ZQNHFBL9/002437959300244T.html
>
>
> Bibdesk is not able to decipher the link to the pdf file. Any
> suggestions?
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Dr. Ronald D. Haynes
>
> Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
> Chair, MSc and PhD Scientific Computing Programs
> Memorial University of Newfoundland
BibDesk cannot by itself understand multiple files in the same field. It is
also ambiguous, as the semicolon is also a valid path character.
You could try to use AppleScript to convert these fields into linked files. I
don’t know if you are versed in AppleScript?
The following script should do what you want (disclaimer: not fully tested, as
I don’t have these fields).
tell application "BibDesk"
tell front document
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {";"}
repeat with aPub in publications
tell (contents of aPub)
set theValue to value of field "File"
if theValue contains ";" then
set theFileNames to text items of
theValue
repeat with theFileName in theFileNames
set theFileName to contents of
theFileName
if theFileName ≠ "" then
set theFile to resolve
theFileName
try
theFile as alias
if (get linked
files) does not contain theFile then
add
theFile
end if
end try
end if
end repeat
end if
end tell
end repeat
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {""}
end tell
end tell
Christiaan
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