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Noted, thank you.
When i said I do back-up manually, i meant File>Backup. not that I back up outside Bookends.
I have found the main file and shall not clear menu in future so that I open the main file.

Addendum:

I note that the auto back-up minimum is every 1 day. Which means that if i want to ...

I named my new library 'Law Library.bdb (Law Library with with bdb prefix)

I back-up manually.

Now whenever i close and quit B and open again (not straightway), the file that opens is 'Law Library backup.bdb

Is that normal behaviour or should it be opening Law Library.bdb and if so there where ...

Noted, thank you.

3. You don't have to have PDFs renamed when you import -- uncheck the "Rename" box in the import dialog.
Accidentally I did that. Fortunately stopped before too many pdfs renamed: I used Time Machine to restore.

In the first instance, I shall copy and paste content from the ...

Having trialled Bookends on several occasions, I have now bought in. I want to "experiment" using B for my law library. "Experiment"' because I've concluded it would only make sense to change over entirely and stop sticking with what I've done so far. Which is a combination of a Filemaker database ...