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No problems detected with Verify. But Rebuilding anyway.

Or is there a way of improving the matching, or turning it off? The manual tells me that "PDFs automatically imported from the watch folder will be attached to an existing reference if the DOI, JSTOR stable URL, or the arXiv ID matches." That wasn't the case with the match shown in the att...

Might it be possible for Bookends to request confirmation before adding a pdf (that has been dropped into the Watch folder) to an existing reference? Yesterday two pdfs were added incorrectly, and it was hard to track down the problem because the references, being old, were not in the Watched group....

I am also seeing this behavior. I click in a field in the Edit Reference window, edit, then click on another field only to discover that the focus has shifted and the reference is highlighted in the main library window. I have not noticed this with versions of Bookends earlier than 13.1.5. I am runn...

Jon, can you clarify where in the Preferences panes one can change this option?

Martin

=== edit: found it!

Thanks, Jon

No, when I set the format with Biblio > Default Format, it switches when I move the focus to another application then back to Bookends. Aha! I think the problem is linked to a format I created for Brain & Behavioral Sciences. The "&" seems to be problematic: it does not display in ...

Something strange is happening with the Formatted Reference menu in the Display Pane. When I switch to another application and back to Bookends, the selected format has changed, to the first format on the menu's list. If I re-select the original format in the Display Pane, the format selected in the...

Using 12.8.1, I'm finding that adding a file to the watch folder sometimes attaches that file to an existing reference, sometimes causes a previously imported reference to disappear, and sometimes replaces an existing attachment. See attached screenshot for an example. Note that the second file in t...

Anyone have a Bookends bibliography format for the journal Behavioral and Brain Sciences ? Here are some examples of its style: Freeman, W. J. (1958) Distribution in time and space of prepyriform electrical activity. Journal of Neurophysiology 2:644-66. http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/abs/neuro/1998060...

Makes sense; I suppose after 'white room' there is a close-double quotes that is treated as the end of the field.

Thanks!

I am importing some references in bibtext format via the clipboard. The import appears to truncate text in the Abstract field. For example: Here is the bibtext on the clipboard, followed by the text in the Abstract field: @article {Cicourel:1996-01-01T00:00:00:0929-0907:221, author = "Cicourel,...

Thanks, Jon. That just made my life a lot easier!

(Though the SQL query editor kept changing quotes into smart quotes, which caused an error.)

Jon, is there a way to search attachment names within Bookends?

Suppose I import a PDF and the downloaded data has the author's name in capital letters. As I have things configured, the attachment will be titled with the name, in capital letters. If I then correct the name in the reference, and try to use this to change the title of the attachment -- for example...