Sonny Software

With the newest version of Bookends, 13.0.7, my firewall (Little Snitch) now says that Bookends is running in "App Translocation Mode". Among other things, this means that any connections I allow it need to re-allowed every time I launch the app. I know what App Translocation Mode means, I think, bu...

I meant--because the string saying where the attachments are is the same on both computers, I should be able to copy (by hand) preferences from one to the other. Just re-iterating your solution.

THank you!

Oh. (Sheepish grin).

So, I have thought a lot about this in a different, but similar, context: Lightroom Catalogs. It might be worthwhile to peruse this article https://www.lightroomqueen.com/one-or-multiple-catalogs/ . For me, it comes down to keywords—if there is significant (say > 40%) overlap in keywords between pro...

Hi I use accented characters in authors' names (because they are accented "in real life.") As far as I can tell, Bookends does not intelligently sort accented characters (in Bookends, Á usually comes after Z but sometimes after A and before B). A related issue is that accented characters are not sor...

Can I put in a strong request for a "Detach and move to trash" option? This could be done by (a) adding another menu item to what is already a long menu, (b) changing the meaning of "Detach…" when the option key is held down, (c) adding a preference of "Trash/Don't trash when detaching". I have 9,70...

Hey, cool.

Yes, I keep my Dropbox folders in "the same place" on both computers, so it should just work. I'll give that a try.

Hi Since an earlier posting was written in April 2017, Bookends seems to have implemented synchronizing reference colors (which I think of as status), which is great. This post also asked for synchronizing metatags, the response to which seemed to say "don't count on this happening." I must say that...

That is exactly what I need. I'll do it some time when I can wait for Bookends to finish.

Yes, I have found the references with orphans, and I am about to kill them ("No, don't kill the orphans!") as I have convinced myself that they were orphaned in Sente, and not somehow lost in the import.

Hi I have migrated from Sente, and there are (of course) lots of things to fix up. For some reason I have a lot of orphaned attachments (orphaned = references for which Bookends thinks that it should have an attachment, but can't find the attachment), which I think are mostly missing from my compute...

Hi freney. I think what you are seeing is consistent with what I saw.

I have always "marked as read" using a status. (I'm a recent convert from Sente, and I brought my statuses over). I find that there are nuances on reading (did I read it carefully?, did I read it and take good notes?, did I read it before or after I made my earth-shattering discovery?) and a check-b...

Hi I don't think that this issue is addressed in the manual or here. Although the discussion of metatags makes it look like they allow you search for a bunch of keywords, it turns out that they match keywords by matching words in the keywords, not by matching the entire keyword string. For instance,...

The world is stacked against those who want to offer reliable software. I feel for you.

Thanks for the reply, Jon. I suspect that the difference between clicking on the green button and choosing "Enter Full Screen" is in your purview, since the behavior is different on a secondary screen. Perhaps you have set things up to be notified when the window goes full screen, and the notificati...