General ⇒ White spaces in path and BibTeX

[Soroush]

I'm using TeXnicCenter. My BibTeX database is in a "My Documents" folder, and this creates error when the bibliography is parsed.
I get this error:

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"White space in argument---line 44 of file C:\My Documents\report.aux
  : \bbidata{C:/My
  :                 Documents/BibTex_DB/db}
...
I'm skipping whatever remains of this command..."

The obvious solution would be to place the .bib file somewhere where the path has no whitespaces. But, is there a way to leave the .bib file in its current place and not get errors?

Thank you!

[tramir]

If I remember it right, what worked for me was to put the path to the file in quotations. Not "LaTeX fancy quotes", but regular ones:

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\bibliography{"C:/My Documents/mybib.bib"}

Try that, if it works. TC automatically converts quotations to LaTeX fancy ones, but you can just copy-paste the character.

Hope it works,
Mircea

[csmallw]

I just downloaded TexLive onto a computer running Windows XP (version 2002, service pack 3) and had the same problem. Tramir's solution did not work for me, but this did work:

Originally I wanted this:

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\bibliography{E:/Program Files/JabRef/clsbib}

So I typed this:

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\bibliography{E:/Progra\string~1/JabRef/clsbib}

The idea is to replace the problematic folder name with its DOS 8.3 filename. The rules for this are to take the first 6 characters of the long filename with no spaces, and follow it with "~1" if there are no other filenames with the same name in the same directory. Thus "Program Files" becomes "Progra~1". I believe that "My Documents" would become "MyDocu~1". The only further complication is that my version of LaTex/BibTex interprets "~" as a space so you have to explicitly specify it as "\string~".

You might also try simply replacing the spaces with asterisks. This worked for me with a previously downloaded version of LaTex (MiKTeX 2.8).