Sonny Software

For some reason after migrating to a new computer a scan revealed that all the citations in Mellel weren't matching. I can't think of anything else that was done besides a database rebuilld. (a rebuild doesn't change the unique ID, does it?) This has actually happened to me a few times with this paper and I'm not sure why. I assumed a unique ID never changed.

Anyway, the purpose of this is to request some enhancement for the verify/scan step in Mellel.

1) when I am in the verification window and I verify a citation, can all subsequent citations that are the same also be verified/scanned?

2) If the only conflict in the verification is the unique ID (i.e. the author and date only match one citation) can bookends automatically verify it?

Hi Danny, I don't know why the verify found nonmatches (the unique id never changes). Changes to how verify is implemented in the UI would have to be made in Mellel, not Bookends. As for a ref that matches one reference but not the unique id, no, that's not a match as far as Bookends is concerned. The unique id is essential to ensure the correct result.

Jon
Sonny Software

Do unique ID's change if citations are imported into a different database?

I'll bring up the verificatino process on the mellel forum

danzac wrote:Do unique ID's change if citations are imported into a different database?

If you export/import a "Bookends" file, the unique id will not change unless there is a conflict with an existing reference in the new database. In that case, of course, a new unique id will be assigned.

Jon
Sonny Software

thanks for the quick replies Jon.

I seem to have quite a few corrupt databases. After my last corrupt database, some references changed unique ID and were not recognized by "scanning", which forced me to update all documents that had those references in them.
How can this be prevented?

Unique id's changed? That's very odd. This is really a tech support issue -- please send me such a database (a "before" and "after" would be good). Zip them before sending, please.

Jon
Sonny Software