I thought of perhaps an easier way to fix your problem using AppleScript.There
is a trick to get the relative path in AppleScript even in the linked file is
broken. Here is a script that you could use to fix the links. Run it from
Script Editor.
property oldPathPrefix : "../../../../../../Volumes/GoogleDrive/"
property newPathPrefix : "../../GoogleDrive-USERNAME/"
tell document 1 of application "BibDesk"
set theBibFile to its file
set theIndex to 1 + (length of oldPathPrefix)
set thePubs to its selection
repeat with aPub in thePubs
set thePub to contents of thePub
if (count of linked files of thePub) > 0 and linked file 1 of
thePub is missing value then
try
set relPath to export using text
"<[email protected][email protected]/>" for
{thePub}
if relPath starts with oldPathPrefix then
set relPath to newPathPrefix & (text
theIndex thru end of relPath)
set theFile to resolve relPath relative
to theBibFile
set theFile to theFile as alias
tell thePub
remove linked file 1
add theFile
end tell
end if
end try
end if
end repeat
end tell
Of course you should replace the correct new path prefix (i.e. fill in
USERNAME). The script works on the selected publications (from the main table).
I would suggest to try it first on a single selected item, to see it works
correctly. I have not tried out the script, as I don’t havenything to try it on.
Christiaan
> On 8 Feb 2023, at 00:09, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
>> On 7 Feb 2023, at 21:52, Laurel MacKenzie <[email protected]
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>
>> I have Bibdesk auto-file my PDFs in a folder on a mounted Google Drive
>> volume, so that I can access them from anywhere. Without warning, Google
>> Drive has changed the way it mounts on a Mac, breaking all my file links.
>>
>> Previously, files were saved at the following path:
>> ../../../../../../Volumes/GoogleDrive/My Drive/Books &
>> papers/FILENAME.pdf
>> (This is based on my decoding the bdsk-file-N field of entries added before
>> the migration)
>>
>> I've changed the autofile location in Bibdesk preferences so that
>> newly-added PDFs go to the right place. Now, files are saved at this path:
>> ../../GoogleDrive-USERNAME/My Drive/Books & papers/FILENAME.pdf
>> (This is based on my decoding the bdsk-file-N field of entries added after
>> the migration)
>>
>> But the 3000 PDFs I added before Google Drive migrated itself are all
>> showing up as broken links in Bibdesk. Is there any way to fix them?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Laurel
>>
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