BibDesk / Bugs / #1273 Cannot edit publications

#1273 Cannot edit publications

Status: closed-works-for-me

Owner: Michael McCracken

Labels: Interface (436)

Priority: 3

Updated: 2010-10-26

Created: 2010-10-26

Creator: Anonymous

Private: No

I run BibDesk Version 1.5.3 on a Mac OS X 10.5.8. I have been unable to edit any publication. Specifically, neither the hitting the 'edit' button nor double-clicking the publication record seems to pop up the editing window. I tried creating a new bibliography and adding a dummy (empty) publication record by hitting the 'new' button. When I try to edit this, nothing happens.

Discussion

Christiaan Hofman - 2010-10-26

I don't see any problem, and AFAIK it also works for any other Leopard user. Is there any log in Console?

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Christiaan Hofman - 2010-10-26

priority: 5 --> 3

status: open --> open-works-for-me
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skutty - 2010-10-26

> Is there any log in Console?
Do you mean the error log? If so, not there isn't any message.
FWIW this is a recent development. Thanks for looking into this.

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Christiaan Hofman - 2010-10-26

I mean a log from BibDesk in Console.app. Are you really sure there is no message there? It does sound like you have a problem on your system, I cannot see anything wrong, it works properly.

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skutty - 2010-10-26

OK thanks. If there is anything I could try to get it working again, do let me know (I've already tried reinstalling BibDesk).

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skutty - 2010-10-26

Forgot to add -- I don't see a message in Console.

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skutty - 2010-10-26

I tried it again -- and I do see this in console...
BibDesk[182]: *** -[NSCFNumber length]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x61a3c0

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Christiaan Hofman - 2010-10-26

If there's no log and I cannot reproduce, there is really nothing I can say.

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Christiaan Hofman - 2010-10-26

Do you get this console message any time when you try to show a publication window?

This is unfortunately a very difficult to figure out message, it's far too generic (439 times in the code).

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skutty - 2010-10-26

> Do you get this console message any time when you try to show a publication
window?
Yes -- I tried it with both a dummy record and my bib files. Neither pop up the edit window; and they throw the exception every time.
Thanks, I appreciate this!

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Christiaan Hofman - 2010-10-26

Have you tried moving aside the preference file at ~/Library/Preferences/edu.ucsd.cs.mmccrack.bibdesk.plist (must do this while BibDesk is not running).

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skutty - 2010-10-26

I tried it and it worked! Thanks so much! Was that file corrupted somehow -- is that what the problem was?

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Christiaan Hofman - 2010-10-26

There must be a value that's set as a number that should be a string. Can you send this file to me?

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skutty - 2010-10-26

Sure -- do I need to start a new thread to send you the file?

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Christiaan Hofman - 2010-10-26

send it directly to me, you can use my sourceforge email address

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Christiaan Hofman - 2010-10-26

or to cmhofman AT gmail DOT com

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Christiaan Hofman - 2010-10-26

status: open-works-for-me --> closed-works-for-me
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