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I have a .bib document called References.bib saved in the following directory:

C:\Users\dvale\Documents\3_References\References.bib

This file contains this entry:

@Article{Ballot2014,
  author    = {Ballot, Andreas},
  title     = {Diversity of cyanobacteria and cyanotoxins in {Hartbeespoort Dam, South Africa}},
  journal   = {Marine and Freshwater Research},
  year      = {2014},
  volume    = {65},
  number    = {2},
  pages     = {175--189},
  issn      = {1323-1650},
  doi       = {10.1071/mf13153},
}

I created a document and cited this reference, however the citation is not appearing, apparently because the .bib file was not found. I'm using biber as bibliographic tool (if is important this information).

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{biblatex}
\addbibresource[location=remote]{C:/Users/dvale/Documentos/3_References/References.bib}
\begin{document}
Example \cite{Ballot2014}
\printbibliography
\end{document}

When I compile the bibliography (F8 in TeXstudio) the following error appears

ERROR - Cannot find 'C:/Users/dvale/Documentos/3_References/References.bib'!

EDIT 1:

I use JabRef to create my .bib files with UTF-8 encoding

The .blg file has the following information in the notepad

[0] Config.pm:312> INFO - This is Biber 2.15 (beta)
[0] Config.pm:315> INFO - Logfile is 'MWE.blg'
[105] biber-MSWIN64:330> INFO - === 
[127] Biber.pm:415> INFO - Reading 'MWE.bcf'
[234] Biber.pm:952> INFO - Found 1 citekeys in bib section 0
[251] Biber.pm:4334> INFO - Processing section 0
[267] Biber.pm:4523> INFO - Looking for bibtex format file 'C:/Users/dvale/Documentos/3_References/References.bib' for section 0
[502] Utils.pm:411> ERROR - Cannot find 'C:/Users/dvale/Documentos/3_References/References.bib'!
[502] Biber.pm:132> INFO - ERRORS: 1
Daniel Valencia C.
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    You shouldn't need [location=remote] here, but I'm not sure if it does any harm. Do things work if you drop the [location=remote] and just say \addbibresource{C:/Users/dvale/Documentos/3_References/References.bib}? – moewe Sep 29 '20 at 14:53
  • @moewe I just removed [location=remote] and the error still appearing – Daniel Valencia C. Sep 29 '20 at 14:56
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    Mhhh, I just tested this on my machine and everything works fine. Can you please show the full .blg file? Also try to compile the file from the command line with biber --trace <filename> and show us the .blg file. – moewe Sep 29 '20 at 15:05
  • @moewe I´m gonna edit the question with this and other informations – Daniel Valencia C. Sep 29 '20 at 15:09
  • @moewe done, help me please :) – Daniel Valencia C. Sep 29 '20 at 15:31
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    Mhhh, I see nothing that could explain why the file is not found. Can you type cd C:\Users\dvale\Documents\3_References into the command line and then check that dir shows your .bib file References.bib? Since this is a mysterious error, you might as well want to try deleting the cache first and try again: https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/543837/35864 – moewe Sep 29 '20 at 15:51
  • @moewe I ran in the comand line biber --cache and then delete the indicated folder. After that, I ran biber --version and I got the message biber version: 2.15 (beta). Then I deleted all the auxiliar files from the folder with the MWE and ran it again. Still not working :( – Daniel Valencia C. Sep 29 '20 at 16:26
  • It is really imperative the absolute path? (i.e., c:/Users/.../filename.bib). If the project is in the same unit that the bib file, is better a relative path, and indeed the best relative path is that pointing to the working directory (just filename.bib) Sorter, less prone to typing errors and portable if you move the project to another folder, another device or another OS. – Fran Sep 29 '20 at 17:12
  • @Fran I use an absolute path because I use those references in almost all the papers, projects, research reports that I write. I think that is more easy manage one .bib file than a .bib file for every document written. When I put the .bib file into the working directory it works, however, the documents already written lose their references – Daniel Valencia C. Sep 29 '20 at 17:23
  • @DanielValenciaC. Even sharing references, there are not reason to use absolute paths except if you compile from different partitions. For instance, assuming that each projects are subfolders of Documentos, is just more handy ../3_References/References.bib and this way, if you move Documentos to a pendrive the relative path will be always, while the absolute path could be now D:/.. or E:/... , etc. Moreover, for sharing files a better place is the kpsewhich -var-value=TEXMFHOME output, that is searchable folder, so you can forget about the route to your references. – Fran Sep 29 '20 at 19:09

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The problem is in the path used for the references.

The path used in the MWE was in Portuguese (language of my notebook)

C:/Users/dvale/Documentos/3_References/References.bib

But changing Documentos for Documents, the problem disappeared

C:/Users/dvale/Documents/3_References/References.bib
Daniel Valencia C.
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