Error from not used bib.bib file

[friendly]

Description

In a book project, I declare multiple .bib files in _quarto.yml for finding references,

bibliography:
  - bib/references.bib
  - bib/R-refs.bib
  - bib/packages.bib
  - "C:/Dropbox/localtexmf/bibtex/bib/graphics.bib"
  - "C:/Dropbox/localtexmf/bibtex/bib/statistics.bib"
  - "C:/Dropbox/localtexmf/bibtex/bib/timeref.bib"
biblio-style: apalike
link-citations: true

and the references there are appropriately found. Yet, when I render the book, I get an error at the end referring to a
bib.bib file quarto seems to be looking for,

File bib.bib not found in resource path
ERROR: File bib.bib not found in resource path

This causes quarto to halt, and not open the rendered HTML file.

Does anyone have an idea what might be causing this?
Where in the source code might quarto be creating a requirement for a file named bib.bib ?

[mcanouil]

I would say the issue is Dropbox.
Move the files from to a place not synced to any services. Do you have the same behaviour?

[friendly]

Not Dropbox -- I moved this project out of Dropbox ages ago.

[friendly]

But, thanks for looking at this!

[mcanouil]

Well the files paths clearly show "Dropbox" in them.

The thing is currently we can't reproduce this, thus investigate.
Could you share a minimal repository highlighting the issue?

[friendly]

Oh, that's where I keep some of my .bib files, but not the book project.
I'll first try copying them to my project bib/ folder to see if that makes a difference,

[friendly]

It makes no difference if all my .bib files are in the project directory

bibliography:
  - bib/references.bib
  - bib/R-refs.bib
  - bib/packages.bib
  - bib/graphics.bib
  - bib/statistics.bib
  - bib/timeref.bib
biblio-style: apalike
link-citations: true
 ...

Is there anything like a debug mode / option in quarto?
Is there anything like a switch to turn ERRORs into WARNINGs so as not to quit?
(If not, could I suggest something like these as new features?)

[mcanouil]

See https://quarto.org/docs/troubleshooting/index.html for advanced options to debug.

[dragonstyle]

I just tried a few different specifications of bibliography files on Windows and MacOS and wasn't able to reproduce any issues. Do you have a complete example that reproduces the example that you could share (ideally a minimal version)?

[friendly]

I copied my book project to a different computer and tried to compile there. I don't get this error, so it must be some problem with the configuration on my main machine. I should have tried this earlier.

Thanks though for the replies. Verbose mode is quite handy.