Re: [Bibdesk-users] Converting Local-Url-N links

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

On Jun 13, 2014, at 11:18, ir299 wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to import a large BibTeX database into BibDesk. I have painstakingly entered all attachments to each entry as a list of Local-Url-N fields (Local-Url, Local-Url-2, Local-Url-3, etc.). Most references have only one attachment, some two, and very few well over ten.
> 
> But I am confronting two problems:
> 
> BibDesk fails to find some files even though the paths are clearly correct.
> 
> BibDesk completely ignores all Local-Url-N fields (N=2,3,…), and only recognizes Local-Url.
> 
> Any ideas as to how to proceed? Thank you.
> 

Only fields that are known as local file fields (as declared in the Fields preferences) are (automatically) converted to linked files. So you should also declare the others there if you want to get this. Note that if you already have the first one converted, it won't automatically convert the others later on (it only automatically converts for items that don't yet have linked files.)

Christiaan