Tony Garnock-Jones

Hmm, I'm not sure it's just when explicitly sorting by file or URL fields, since on our system, we had the database sorted by something else. The fault was in the sorting code, so maybe the sorting code was being invoked even when the file/url wasn't the primary sort key? I'm fairly sure the problem manifests even when the view is sorted by, say, author or cite key.

Success! It opens the problem databases without complaint now. Many thanks, that was a great turnaround time :-) I'm not OP, of course -- it will be interesting to see if this fixes their problem too.

I think we're seeing the same thing. BibDesk nightly dated 29 Oct 2022. Version 1.8.14 (6038) (and also version 1.8.14 (6036)) macOS 12.5.1 (Monterey) - works fine (on an M1 Mac Mini) macOS 12.6 - does not work (on M2 MacBook Air) macOS 13.0.1 (Ventura) - does not work (on M2 MacBook Air) This is the latest M2 MacBook Air, purchased only a few weeks ago. Save the following two lines to very-small-db.bib: @article{a1,url={1}} @article{a2,url={1}} Double-click on the bib file. The BibDesk app will...

Crash when adding custom field if existing field is selected for editing

Add support for lexing *.rkt (Racket) files as Scheme

Racket used to use .ss, as well