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Hello!.

I’ve just updated JabRef to ver.5.2 and created the following entry:

@Article{key1,
author    = {SomeAuthor},
journal   = {Some journal},
title     = {Some Title},
year      = {2021},
file      = {:D\:/TMP/Dicke-1978.pdf:PDF},
owner     = {v},
timestamp = {2021.01.07},
}

The link “file” refers to pdf file that does exist. However, I cannot open it in the program. When I click the icon “Open file …” in the left part of the line with the entry, I see a window with a list of subfolders in “My Documents” and that is all. If I click the icon with a magnifier in tab “General” marked “Get full text”, I see the message “No full text document fund”. How can I open a document file in this version of JabRef? Just in case, my OS is Windows 7.

2

Hi,

please check your preferences, it might be that your main file directory is not set

3

Thanks. I’ve set the main directory to d:\ and it works now. But what to do if my documents are located on more than one volume?

4

That is no problem, it can be configured freely, see the help.

Manage associated files - JabRef

5

I still don’t see in the help how to treat file names as absolute. But I found a method that works: I set General file directory (Library -> Library properties) to “\”.