[tex-live] TeXLive2009: Issue with bibtex+babelbib

[Maxwell, Adam R]

On 10/08/09 06:12, "Herbert Schulz" <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:

> If I open the bib file in BibDesk (a bibliography data base
> manager on the Mac) I get a message:
> 
> ``Local File and URL fields have been automatically converted
> 
> These fields are being deprecated.  BibDesk now uses a more flexible
> storage format in place of these fields. ...''
> 
> which agree with the observation above.

No idea what the OP's problem is, but this message is specific to BibDesk.
Local file links are now stored as a combination of absolute/relative path
and Mac OS alias, and arbitrary URLs are no longer stored in the URL field
by default, since they're often not part of the actual citation.