Re: Problem with org-ref

[Kyle Meyer]

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/")