Sonny Software

Hi,
I found a things not working in the new version (10.5.3) on my computer:

1. When deleting a reference selecting 'move attachment to the trash' doesn't do anything - the attached pdfs still remain on the hard drive (which is a different partition than the one BE is one (although same physical drive). I actually think this has been broken as long as I remember.

2. When showing .pdf attachment in the list view, I can't seem to turn it off again - the list view window is corrupted (the 'display pane'). Sometimes clicking this button also corrupts the window without displaying the pdf.

3. Importing .pdfs from local drive and selecting the 'get from internet and autocomplete' option gives some 'weird' results - I think this may be the pdfs that I am importing though (e.g. from Annu. Rev. Ecol. Evol. Syst.D)

4. Autocompleting papers from 3. doesn't work very well - very often articles aren't found based on title/first author. However, when the actual paper is found by other means the title/first author match exactly to what I had searched for (again I think this could be unrelated to BE).

Thanks a bunch,
-K

Hi,

These are really all things you should contact tech support for. There's nothing I can do to help you without getting files from you.

I can't reproduce #1 or #2. Can you reproduce these with a fresh database?

As for #3, I don't know exactly what you are doing, or what you mean by "get from internet and autocomplete".

Finally, it's the search aggregators (e.g. JSTOR, PubMed, etc.) that determine how the searches work. In general, the less you enter in the autocomplete search window to search for, the better (with the caveat that you need to enter enough to narrow down the search).

Jon
Sonny Software

For some odd reason 2, 3 and 4 went away after a restart of my computer.... Nooooo idea why. If it comes back, I will contact you via support.

As for 1, this still persists - even in new databases. I am thinking the problem could lie with the fact that I use Path Finder instead of the Finder? When invoking this command does BE send a command to the Finder?

Cheers,
K

Bookends uses the Mac OS X API to move the file to the trash. If you're not using the Finder, I image that could be the problem.

Jon
Sonny Software