HI Kyle,

This solved my problems

 Thanks, 

M




> On Mar 9, 2021, at 11:49 PM, Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com> wrote:
> 
> Marvin M. Doyley writes:
> 
>> Hi there,
>> 
>> When I use crossref-add-bibtex-entry it download the BibTeX entry but cannot download the associated pdf.
>> I get the following error  (wrong-type-argument stringp ("/Users/doyley/Dropbox/Filing_Cabinet/B/refs/pdf/“))
>> 
>> I configured org-ref as follows
>> 
>> (setq org-ref-bibliography-notes '("/Users/doyley/Dropbox/Filing_Cabinet/B/refs/ref_notes.org") 
>>      org-ref-default-bibliography '("/Users/doyley/Dropbox/Filing_Cabinet/B/refs/ref.bib") 
>>      org-ref-pdf-directory '("/Users/doyley/Dropbox/Filing_Cabinet/B/refs/pdf/")
>> 	  org-ref-notes-citation-link '("cite")
>>      )
> 
> [ Caveat: I've never used org-ref ]
> 
> org-ref's 0383cc2 (support multiple pdf directories, 2016-06-10) updated
> org-ref-pdf-directory to accept a list value, so your value is valid,
> but...
> 
>> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp ("/Users/doyley/Dropbox/Filing_Cabinet/B/refs/pdf/"))
>>  file-name-as-directory(("/Users/doyley/Dropbox/Filing_Cabinet/B/refs/pdf/"))
>>  doi-utils-get-bibtex-entry-pdf(nil)
> 
> ... doi-utils-get-bibtex-entry-pdf wasn't updated for that (+cc the
> author of that commit and John Kitchin).
> 
> It looks like org-ref-pdf-directory still supports a string, though, and
> you only have one item, so you should be able to work around the issue
> with
> 
>  (setq org-ref-pdf-directory "/Users/doyley/Dropbox/Filing_Cabinet/B/refs/pdf/")