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I'm writing my thesis using biblatex and biber for the references. When I compile I get the following error message:

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

I had a long conversation with @moewe in the comments of this question, traying to solve this issue. Apparently anything is wrong, but the MWE still not working in my computer. Does anyone else have any information to help me fix this?

\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}

Informations:

The .bib file was created with JabRef with UTF-8 encoding

The .bib file has 362 entries

The .bib file size is 185 KB

I'm using TeXstudio

The default bibliographic tool is biber

The default compiler is pdflatex

When I put the .bib file into the working directory, the MWE run perfectly

#With References.bib into the MWE working directory
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{biblatex}
\addbibresource{References.bib}
\begin{document}
Example \cite{Ballot2014}
\printbibliography
\end{document}

I already tried to clear the biber cache

This problem starts when I change my notebook

I really need to use a single bib file for all my documents, instead of having a bib file for each document, since the references are all about the same subject and I already have written documents that lose their references.

Daniel Valencia C.
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  • Not a solution, but perhaps a workaround. I keep my local texmf folder in Dropbox and use symbolic links on each machine to it so that it is available to any machine I use. – Alan Munn Sep 29 '20 at 17:58
  • why location = remote? – Ulrike Fischer Sep 29 '20 at 19:20
  • @UlrikeFischer That was my last attempt to solve the problem. I already tried without [location = remote], I also tried to change the path to ../3_References/References.bib, but none of my attempts worked. I'm gonna update the question with some pictures showing things that I think that may help – Daniel Valencia C. Sep 29 '20 at 19:29
  • Show a screenshot of the folder address and the bib-file. – Ulrike Fischer Sep 29 '20 at 19:40
  • @UlrikeFischer I found the error. Was really the path. I wrote C:/Users/dvale/Documentos/3_References/References.bib and change Documentos for Documents and it works perfectly – Daniel Valencia C. Sep 29 '20 at 19:44

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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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