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Download Version 10.32 for Intel Macs, runnig Mac OS X 10.7 or later When you purchase a license, we will send you an unlock code that will remove this limitation. In the trial mode, it will be limited to renaming at most 10 files at a time. Download Version 10.46 for Intel Macs, running Mac OS X 10.10 or later Download Version 11.53 for Intel & Apple Silicon Macs running Mac OS X 10.10 or later. Version 11 is a free upgrade for users who own a forever upgrade or have purchased the product after the 1st of Download Version 11.62 for Intel & Apple Silicon Macs running Mac OS X 10.13 or later. Version 12 is a free upgrade for users who own a forever upgrade or have purchased the product after the 1st of Same basic idea as using Markdown for note-taking (eg Zettlr) - trying to keep things as specific software-independent as possible.Download Version 12.04 for Intel & Apple Silicon Macs running Mac OS X 10.15 or later. But this way, I know I can do a quick search in the Refs folder to see if I have something by someone, independently of having to fire up any particular bib software to search through. (There are only ever very few unpinned keys at any one time, and these are automagically made unique by postfixing in the time before they get changed and pinned.) Again, a procedure born from the policy of storing all refs in a single folder. The collision-scan will reveal if this is the case, in which case I modify the key to something unique and then pin it. I also tell BBT to keep them unique across all libraries and to postfix non-pinned keys if there is a conflict. I pin the keys once I am happy with them being unique (the vast majority arrived already pinned from the EndNote import process which required a rename of the EndNote "Label" to "Citekey: `label`" into Extra in the import file - help on this in these Forums a couple of years ago made this time-saver possible). Thankfully, I haven't had to confront renaming thousands of files - but cleaning up Zotero from an EndNote import is not a simple or quick job, so I have not gotten away scot-free. Each new addition gets the BBT-citekey treatment (much faster than manually). I already have thousands of files named this way, since this is how I started doing it 20-odd years ago with ProCite. BBT can't do that level of file-name patterns (yet), but it gets you 95% of the way, 95% of the time, which is pretty good - especially for a complex file naming schema like I have (an artefact of LaTeX/BibTeXing way back in the day). I also distinguish between final published vs (p)reprints with a "-R" added to the base before the filename extension. mp3 etc files with the Citekey base name. ![]() It needs to be done manually or with Zotfile - BBT simply generates the unique identifier which then becomes the base filename for electronic files the uniqueness is important to prevent name collisions and possible file overwrites.įor me, these are mostly. It is very handy to always know which ref a stray file belongs to, or what a file needs to be called to belong to a ref. There are a couple more tricks, but that's the gist. Doing it this way also speeds up the download, rename, move and link process, since the citekey is in memory and can be used to both rename the downloaded file, and to link the file once moved into the /References folder. This way, I always know which PDF (or other type of file, such as. ![]() It also meant that migrating to Zotero was much easier, since it was the file links that were copied across - the folder stayed the same, and the files stayed in place. This was also done so I could do backups of the /References folder separately from the databases themselves. ![]() This goes back to the days when I had one folder holding the PDFs that was looked at by both ProCite and EndNote - I wanted to ensure that the PDFs were not "lost" inside the file structure of either, but visible in a separate one to both. (With thanks to for the tweaking of the pattern.) For the PDF (and other types of files, too) filenames I use the BibTeX citekey generated in BetterBibTeX by the pattern:Īnd strip off the letters that are from the subtitle (ie only use the 'main' words from the title, not 'an', 'the' etc).
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