# No full text document found

**URL:** <https://discourse.jabref.org/t/no-full-text-document-found/2494>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [January 7, 2021, 5:26pm UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/no-full-text-document-found/2494 "2021-01-07T17:26:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![vgi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8edcca/32.png) [@vgi](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/vgi)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2021, 5:26pm UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/no-full-text-document-found/2494/1 "2021-01-07T17:26:32Z")

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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.

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**Author:** ![Siedlerchr](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.jabref.org/siedlerchr/32/216_2.png) [@Siedlerchr](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/Siedlerchr)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2021, 7:12pm UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/no-full-text-document-found/2494/2 "2021-01-07T19:12:03Z")

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Hi,

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

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**Author:** ![vgi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8edcca/32.png) [@vgi](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/vgi)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2021, 7:30pm UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/no-full-text-document-found/2494/3 "2021-01-07T19:30:08Z")

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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?

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**Author:** ![Siedlerchr](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.jabref.org/siedlerchr/32/216_2.png) [@Siedlerchr](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/Siedlerchr)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2021, 10:43pm UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/no-full-text-document-found/2494/4 "2021-01-07T22:43:09Z")

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

[Manage associated files - JabRef](https://docs.jabref.org/finding-sorting-and-cleaning-entries/filelinks#directories-for-files)

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**Author:** ![vgi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8edcca/32.png) [@vgi](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/vgi)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2021, 4:58pm UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/no-full-text-document-found/2494/5 "2021-01-10T16:58:24Z")

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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 “\”.