Ah, i didn’t know you used the commandline.
Yes, indeed! JabRef docs about commandline use state this:
Locate JabRef.bat
(Windows) or JabRef
(Linux, Mac OS). In the portable versions, this is JabRef-5.0-portable_windows\JabRef\runtime\bin\JabRef.bat
and JabRef-5.0-portable_linux\JabRef\lib\runtime\bin\JabRef
.
Do not use JabRef\JabRef.exe
or bin/JabRef