[OS X TeX] BibDesk: Unable to save metadata cache file

[Adam R. Maxwell]

On Mar 15, 2006, at 14:42, Winfried Zettelmeyer wrote:

> Adam, thanks for your answer.
> As I detected later, the .bib file had linebreaks in the title  
> field of one entry. When that was corrected everything was fine.  
> Before, different from what your answer suggests, new entries were  
> not recognised.

The error message will not affect the .bib file as written by  
BibDesk; you'll get a different error message when a file save error  
occurs.  However, it is very likely that BibTeX (note spelling :)  
will choke on such characters.

> I looked at the log file and did not find anything around the time  
> when the error turned up, but I might have overlooked something in  
> the thousands of log lines.
> If the error repeats - possibly it is provocable by changing an  
> entry directly in the .bib file - I will look immediatly into the log.

More than likely it was some strange Unicode newline.  I'm still  
surprised that it would affect the metadata, because that saves files  
based on citekey as filename.  Do you use the title as citekey?

Adam

> Winfried
>
>
> On 15 Mar 2006, at 21:15, Adam Maxwell wrote:
> On Wednesday, March 15, 2006, at 10:47AM, Winfried Zettelmeyer  
> <Winfried at Zettelmeyer.com> wrote:
>> Hallo all,
>> I have been learning and using Bibtex now for a week and it works
>> very well. However I get this message (no idea what it means) every
>> time I try to save the .bib file. The BibteX console does not tell my
>> anything strange when compiling (the usual warnings about empty
>> fields), I can make new entries into the BibTeX template, TeXshop
>> recognises the \footfullcite command of the jurabib package when
>> entering the new source and puts a footnote reference, but the
>> footnote remains empty with ? after any amount of Latexing and
>> Bibtexing.
>> What to do ? Is my bib file lost and do I have to start all over ?
>
> That warning occurs when BibDesk is unable to save the Spotlight  
> metadata cache; you should never see it in practice, so I'd like to  
> find out why it's popping up.  Do you see anything in the console  
> log using /Applications/Utilities/Console.app?  There should be a  
> more detailed description of the error.
>
> It has no effect on the ability to save your .bib file, so that  
> should be just fine.  It also is unrelated to any footnote/cite  
> problems you may be having.
>
> -- 
> Adam
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