Comment 2 for bug 632709

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m4cph1sto (dlreid) wrote :

The "file" field I referenced came from Mendeley Desktop, I believe. It is an absolute path. In the latest version of Mendeley the field looks like: file = {:home/username/path/to/file.pdf:pdf}. It looks like they got rid of the leading "/".

Kbibtex uses a "localfile" field, and it's a relative path:

localfile = "path/to/file.pdf"

The important thing is that these other popular reference managers write, in some manner, the file location for each entry to the Bibtex .bib file, but Referencer does not. This limits the usefulness of Referencer. Actually, we risk losing our entire file database if for whatever reason we can no longer use Referencer. Even though the "file" field is non-standard and varies between managers, a simple script or even find/replace in a text editor could quickly convert one format to the other, or to a Windows-readable format.