Re: [Bibdesk-users] Change of Bibdesk file AND local files, now links broken

[Christiaan H. <cmh...@gm...>]

On Feb 16, 2012, at 12:52, olmar wrote:

> Hello,
> I keep my folder with pdf articles on a SMB server and I initially kept the
> bibdesk file in the same folder. Now I moved the .bib to one level higher
> than the pdfs and this folder have been moved to another place in the
> server. The links (either absolute or relative) to the files are now broken.
> I discovered too late that bibdesk saves mac aliases and that I should have
> used the "save as" command, what should I do now? Is there a way to rewrite
> from scratch the appropriate field in the bibdesk file? I only need to
> change the prefix of the locations, file names are intact.
> 
> I tried with AppleScript but I'm not used to it and I couldn't achieve
> anything. Could someone help me?
> 
> Thank you very much.
> 
> O.M.

I'd advise you to go revert to a back-up of your database. (You did back up didn't you?) There is no way to fix the aliases manually or with AppleScript, unless these files are located in a place that you could determine from the other data of the items. One more thing you may try is to move the database back into the folder that contains the PDFs so that the relative location is preserved and then open it again, there is a (good) chance that the items still remember that relative path.

Christiaan