Scalability of the Papers application?
Duncan Hull
Thursday, 05 July 2007 12:22 UTC
I was wondering, what is the upper limit of articles you can put into the Papers application?
While playing around with Papers, I found it hanged when I tried to import this moderately sized bibtex file
Is this a known issue? Or just my dodgy bibtex?
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Hi Duncan,
Officially there’s no upper limit really, however performance wise I would say somewhere in the lower thousands at the moment. We’re currently at a 1.0 release stage and performance is something we would definitely like to improve.
Regarding your bibtex file, I just had a look at it. First of all, make sure you are running Papers 1.1.1 as indicated in the about box. Second, if you import a bibtex file it should a) have a .bib extension and b) it should be encoded in UTF-8 format. When I downloaded your file, opened it in textedit and saved it as all.bib in UTF-8 encoding it imported just fine.
Hope that helps!
Again, many thanks for the feedback. Enjoy version 1.1 of Papers!
Best wishes,
Alex & Tom
Mek & Tosj -
speaking about scalability > is there a way to use/share a ‘central’ version of papers amongst members of a research group? In other words, allow multiple users to access the same repository via a network?
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