Re: Problem with org-ref

[John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>]

That is an odd looking path. On Mac that would expand to something like

/Users/Dropbox/_biblio/org-ref/bibnotes.org

and on linux

/home/Dropbox/_biblio/org-ref/bibnotes.org

usually you should not have permission for that, and neither make sense
to me.

Does (file-exists-p org-ref-bibliography-notes) return true?

or alternatively does (find-file org-ref-bibliography-notes) actually
open a writable file?

I would think this is what you want (unless you have some unusual setup
and permissions):

(setq org-ref-bibliography-notes "~/Dropbox/_biblio/org-ref/bibnotes.org"
       org-ref-default-bibliography '("~/Dropbox/_biblio/refs.bib"))

i.e. no .. in the path.

Andreas Kiermeier writes:

> Hi John,
>
> I've set it at follows (based on your setup) in my init.el file:
>
> (setq org-ref-bibliography-notes "~/../Dropbox/_biblio/org-ref/bibnotes.org"
>       org-ref-default-bibliography '("~/../Dropbox/_biblio/refs.bib"))
>
> So, non-nil.
>
> Andreas
>
> On 25 December 2015 at 00:45, John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 1:04 AM, Andreas Kiermeier <
>> andreas.kiermeier@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> org-ref-open-bibtex-notes()
>>
>>
>> That looks like a different error that occurs in  org-ref-open-bibtex-notes().
>> Up to that point everything looks normal.
>>
>> What do you have your org-ref-bibliography-notes variable set to? The
>> default value is nil which would cause that error.
>>
>>
>>
>> John
>>
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