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Paul,

I am finally going to have to ask for help. I have several problems with BS7, but none serious enough to warrant a separate email. Now I have a problem that I need to get sorted before it becomes more serious.

When I used BS6 I had a many-to-many organization, including folders for authors, for at that time I was building up the database, in part, with author searches on ISI-Citation Index. References were also cross-referenced by copying into folders and sub-folders for the different chapters of the CBT "book" on Plant Anatomy, that has been my project in retirement. This all worked well at the time. Then you changed everything with BS7, and I naively converted from BS6 to BS7 without tidying up the database beforehand. The first problem was that many references appeared in categories that had nothing to do with their original cross-references. Then I compounded the problem by repeatedly editing category names in a succession of attempts to create a standardized format. The result was that every time I edited a category name or deleted one from the list, there remained a trail of categories with associated references but which didn't appear on the Categories list. After attempts to edit out these problems one reference at a time, I finally got fed up and wiped the whole Categories field with the Global Edit command (Tools>Utilities>Global Edit>..) and started over assigning categories. Which leads me to the problem that I am writing about and may in fact be related.

I have transferred my writing of text for the ToolbookII project from Microsoft Word to the Notes Module in BS7, partly to keep things together and partly so I can link references to text. I have found now on two occasions that references appear in the right panel (having done an author search for a particular reference) that do not exist in the references module. When I open the suspect reference by double clicking on it in the right panel in the open Note, it either has no folder name or resides in a folder that no longer exists, and when I do a Cntl>R list of in the Reference module, the relevant ID is missing (the phantom references are duplicates, that had been deleted at some earlier time, of properly documented references). As I recall, in BS6 there was a procedure for accessing references that had disappeared into limbo, but can find no equivalent procedure in BS7. Please advise.

Thanks,

Arthur Berg