I'm commuting to using the new biber/biblatex system of referencing. Previously I have been using bibtex as a backend and have tried converting to biber. I'm using MikTeX 2.9 under windows xp sp3.
I compiled my thesis: project name: Thesis_1
; backend=biber
is set in the options for biblatex
.
This runs with the expected reference and shortcut warnings.
Then I run biber Thesis_1
and get:
INFO - This is Biber 0.9.6
INFO - Logfile is 'Thesis_1.blg'
INFO - Reading 'Thesis_1.bcf'
INFO - Found 0 citekeys in bib section 0
INFO - Found 3 citekeys in bib section 1
INFO - Found 132 citekeys in bib section 0
INFO - Processing bib section 0
INFO - Looking for bibtex format file 'References/References1' for section 0
ERROR - Cannot find file 'References/References1'!
INFO - ERRORS: 1
You can see that I have my bibliography file inside a folder called References
within the project folder and that the bib file is called References1.bib
.
The file is there of course.
One possible cause may be a bug related to cross-platform compatibility. The file has been called References/References1
, but a backslash should have been used instead for a windows path. Maybe it's not this at all, but it would be nice to have a fix.
\addbibresource
but not fully qualifying your file name with.bib
as per the biblatex manual. Can you check?\bibliography{}
and\addbibresource
is different - the latter required the extension - perhaps you switched commands when you switched backends?natbib
tobiblatex
though. I guess it is a case ofbiblatex
andbibtex
being happy with either andbiber
requiring the extension.