exporting bib file provides absolute paths instead of relative

kirk86

Does anyone know why upon exporting .bib file from BetterBibtex we get absolute paths like below:

@article{test124,
month = may,
year = {2016},
file = {/home/user/ODrive/articles/pdfs/h/houthooft/2016/houthooft2016.pdf},
}

@inproceedings{abdelrahim2016,

file = {/home/user/ODrive/articles/pdfs/a/abdelrahim/2016/abdelrahim2016.pdf}
}

@article{abou-moustafa2016,
file = {/home/user/ODrive/articles/pdfs/a/abou-moustafa/2016/abou-moustafa2016.pdf}

instead of relative ones, since I've set zotfile and indicated where pdfs live and where's the base directory.

Is it possible to get .bib file exported with relative paths?

emilianoeheyns

It is possible using BBT (and the new release based on your comments makes it more flexible than it was)

emilianoeheyns

(As noted on the github tracker when we discussed this, but for the benefit of others who may read this only on the Zotero forums: enabling this turns off BBTs cache, which makes BBT slower and will lock up Zotero during long-running exports)

kirk86

Thank you @emilianoeheyns for your prompt response, appreciate it!