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After setting up WinEdt (10.3 64-bit) to use Biber as described in Biblatex with Biber: Configuring my editor to avoid undefined citations I ran into a problem:

Biber looks for log-files bookXX-blx.blg, where XX is the chapter number. These are present in /book/TeXAux, but Biber apparently tries to find them in /book. How do I pass the correct location to Biber?

moewe
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    I doubt that biber looks for a blg-file, its input are bcf-file. And I never use TeXAux as imho it only makes life more difficult -- as you just discovered. – Ulrike Fischer Jul 26 '19 at 11:16
  • Biber should be looking for one .bcf and possibly several .bibs, but not for .blgs, especially not for -blx.blgs (if you use BibTeX there are -blx.bibs and possibly -blx.auxs for several refsections, but those shouldn't be needed by Biber). I'd love to see an example (https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/q/228/35864) where Biber has to look for those files. Anyhow, this again shows that "build" subdirectories are the work of the devil and should be avoided at all costs. So the only solution that I can wholeheartedly recommend is to stop using a "build" folder ... – moewe Jul 26 '19 at 13:01
  • ... But I doubt that is what you want to hear, so I suggest you have a look at §3.3. Input/Output File Locations of the Biber documentation. You probably want to try calling something like biber --input-directory=./TeXAux <basename> instead of just biber <basename>. – moewe Jul 26 '19 at 13:03
  • Any news here? Did the suggestions work? Can you share more about your folder and document setup? Does Biber really complain about not finding -blx.blg files? – moewe Jul 29 '19 at 06:22
  • Adding the --input-directory=./TeXAux to the command line works, but only if the bib-file is moved to TeXAux and the \addbibresource is changed accordingly. Of course, this puts the idea of separating input and intermediate files ad absurdum. MikTeX is set up is standard except for a localtexmf in /MyDocuments. The book project resides in its own folder under /MyDocuments. – Engelbert Buxbaum Jul 30 '19 at 07:16
  • Mhhh, that surprises me even with --input-directory Biber should search the current working directory according to the manual. Does --output-directory give better results? – moewe Jul 30 '19 at 15:28
  • The output already ends up in TeXAux, so there seems no point in setting it explicitly. – Engelbert Buxbaum Jul 31 '19 at 08:19

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