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For some reason biblatex isn't working properly. It seems it can't reference the .bib file, and thus doesn't print the citations properly. The strange thing is that I have an older .tex file that uses biblatex with the same sequence of commands, and it works. For some reason this new one doesn't work. In any case, here is my MWE:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[backend=biber]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{edrefs.bib}
\begin{document}
This is the main\footcite{Edg} text.\footcite[32]{SkilFR}
\cite{Edg}
\nocite{*}
\printbibliography
\end{document}

And the .bib file:

 @mvbook
  {Edg,
  AUTHOR = "Edgerton, Franklin",
  TITLE = "{Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Grammar and Dictionary}",
  VOLUMEs = 2,
  PUBLISHER = "Yale University Press",
  LOCATION = "New Haven",
  YEAR = 1953
  }

   @article
   {SkilFR,
   author = "Skilton, Andrew",
   title = "{Four Recensions of the Samādhirājasūtra}",
   journaltitle = "{Indo-Iranian Journal}",
  pages = "335--356",
  volume = 42,
  number = 4,
  year = 1999,
  publisher = "Klewer",
  location = "Netherlands"
  }
Johannes_B
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    You did run biber? Question mark instead of citation number and Biblatex with Biber: Configuring my editor to avoid undefined citations – Johannes_B Nov 08 '15 at 11:03
  • Ah, yes, that's what I forgot! Stupid mistake. In any case, I run it through biber, but I get these errors:

    This is BibTeX, Version 0.99d (TeX Live 2015)

    The top-level auxiliary file: bibtest.aux

    I found no \citation commands---while reading file bibtest.aux

    I found no \bibdata command---while reading file bibtest.aux

    I found no \bibstyle command---while reading file bibtest.aux

    (There were 3 error messages)

    Thanks!

     – Paul Nov 08 '15 at 11:10
  • You're obviously not running biber if you get a message saying This is bibtex... – Torbjørn T. Nov 08 '15 at 11:13
  • OK, well what I do is switch my TeX editor to compile using BibTeX (rather that XeLaTeX). This is what I have done in the past and it worked then. – Paul Nov 08 '15 at 11:15
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    You have requested biblatex with the backend=biber option. That means you have to compile using Biber and not BibTeX. Please refer to the second link Johannes posted above to find out how to configure you editor to run Biber instead of BibTeX. – moewe Nov 08 '15 at 11:15
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    bibtex and biber are two different programs for generating and sorting a bibliography, and if you set biblatex up to generate code for one of them (as you have done with backend=biber) you cannot use the other -- they are incompatible in that sense. – Torbjørn T. Nov 08 '15 at 11:19
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    Ah, ok, thank you. That solved it. I suppose I had changed the preferences of my editor back to using bibtex and forgotten that I needed to change it to biber. – Paul Nov 08 '15 at 11:25

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