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If you need to use two or more independent and separate Bento™ collections of Libraries, create another user
account on your Mac. Each new account has its own Bento data file stored in the Application Support folder in the user’s Library folder.

This tip was submitted by Jon Longworth (aka Jade in the Bento™ forums).

You can also simply copy or rename the bento.bentodb file in your user’s Library/Application Support/Bento folder and when you next start Bento it will create a new one. However, please ensure that Bento is not running when you attempt this.

In the screen-shot below you can see that I have three Bento files, each containing their own collection of Libraries: my personal Libraries, Libraries to do with work and Libraries used for examples for this site.

A Media filed can be used to store images, movies and sound files. The default behaviour is that when you drag and drop a file onto a Media field you store a copy of the actual file in your Bento database. Obviously this can lead to the database file becoming very large very quickly so an alternative is to hold down the Option (⌥) key when you drag a file onto a Media field. This stores the file’s alias, a link to the file rather than the file itself, which is around 4k in size, almost insignificant.

This tip was submitted by Jon Longworth (aka Jade in the Bento™ forums).

Bento™ can import and export data from and to CSV files. These are essentially plain text files where each record is stored on its own line and each item of data, or field, within a record is separated by a comma, hence Comma Separated Value or CSV file.

This article will explain how to import CSV data into both new and existing Libraries, how to export data from a Library to a CSV file and highlight some limitations with the CSV file format.
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You should always back up the data on your Mac and applications such as Time Machine make this easier than ever. However if you are not using Time Machine or performing other regular backups or you just want a snapshot of your collection of Libraries before you try something out you can perform a manual backup in Bento.
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Registering Bento seems to cause some problems because of two main issues. The first is that the early Preview releases of Bento cannot be registered and so if you are using a Preview release then you should download a trial version instead. The second problem is that the button to license Bento is not enabled despite entering your name and license key. This is because the key is linked to the name so you must use the exact name that appears in your Bento license.

In the screenshot below you can see that there is a line which specifies the ‘User or Organization Name for Installation’ and this is what you need to enter in Bento.

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