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I am using a MacBook Air (13-inch, Mid 2012) running OS X 10.11. After having upgraded to El Captain, Bibdesk is not producing anymore the preview of my bibliographic entries. How can I visualize again the bibliographic entries with Text Preview? here is the message error as it appear in the the log.

--------- BibDesk info ----------

{

ivars:

delegate = ""

file name = "bibpreview"

template = "/Users/giancarlodiano/Library/Application Support/BibDesk/previewtemplate.tex"

TeX file = "/var/folders/3n/xtr1kkrx5bz4vmcxy_5f77gm0000gn/T/bibdesk.tj3vqg/bibpreview/bibpreview.tex"

BibTeX file = "/var/folders/3n/xtr1kkrx5bz4vmcxy_5f77gm0000gn/T/bibdesk.tj3vqg/bibpreview/bibpreview.bib"

TeX binary path = "/usr/texbin"

Encoding = "Western (ASCII)"

BibTeX style = "abbrv"

Helper files = (

)

environment:

SHELL = "/bin/bash"

BIBINPUTS = "(null)"

BSTINPUTS = "(null)"

TEXINPUTS = "(null)"

TEXCONFIG = "(null)"

TEXMFCONFIG = "(null)"

PATH = "/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin" }

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  • Welcome to TeX.SE. Have you looked at other question that speek about the el capitan update? There is a change of path that can cause conflict Oct 16, 2015 at 17:06
  • I did, but unfortunately did not help.. Oct 16, 2015 at 17:31
  • Please, paste the log, select it and click the {} button rather than the button for quotations.
    – egreg
    Oct 16, 2015 at 17:39
  • Ok , will do for the future. Oct 16, 2015 at 17:53

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Open the preferences of BibDesk and go to the “TeX preview” panel; in the two boxes change /usr/texbin into /Library/TeX/texbin to get

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Here's the end of the log after generating a preview (I just masked my user name):

---------- BibDesk info ----------
<BDSKTeXTask: 0x60000028d8e0> {
ivars:
    delegate = "<BDSKPreviewer: 0x600000321ea0>"
    file name = "bibpreview"
    template = "/Users/?????/Library/Application Support/BibDesk/previewtemplate.tex"
    TeX file = "/var/folders/8b/hx9v58ln1txgzv4v32_vpbr40000gn/T/bibdesk.twW03T/bibpreview/bibpreview.tex"
    BibTeX file = "/var/folders/8b/hx9v58ln1txgzv4v32_vpbr40000gn/T/bibdesk.twW03T/bibpreview/bibpreview.bib"
    TeX binary path = "/Library/TeX/texbin"
    Encoding = "Unicode (UTF-8)"
    BibTeX style = "abbrv"
    Helper files = (
)

environment:
    SHELL = "/bin/bash"
    BIBINPUTS = "(null)"
    BSTINPUTS = "(null)"
    TEXINPUTS = "(null)"
    TEXCONFIG = "(null)"
    TEXMFCONFIG = "(null)"
    PATH = "/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin" }
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  • @CarloDiano So, why did you accept the answer? There can be many more reasons why the preview generation has failed, the log is usually informative.
    – egreg
    Oct 16, 2015 at 17:31
  • You were right the first time! I misspelled the path and that's why you solution was "not working", once I caught my own mistake, it worked! Oct 16, 2015 at 17:54

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