TeX Live and MacTeXTexLive and biblatex problem

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IGiroud
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TexLive and biblatex problem

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I have been using biblatex with an old version of my TexLive on Mac. I had trouble using a relative location for my .bib. Therefore I have been making copies of my bibliography database all over the place, which of course, is highly problematic. I tried then to find out what the problem was and realised firstly, that my TexMaker and TexShop where configured for using bibtex rather than biber, and that making the change didn't work. Then I found out I was using an outdated TexLive version. I just installed the more recent version of MacTex, and now I am unable to compile my files. Here is a minimal working example (I hope it works but I cannot be sure since I cannot compile it any more):

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\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[british]{babel} 
\usepackage{csquotes} 
\usepackage[style=authoryear]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{BiblioExample.bib}

\begin{document}
whatever .... \autocite{key}.

\printbibliography
\end{document}
I get this warning:
Package biblatex Warning: File 'Article.bbl' is wrong format version -expected 2.2.
And this error:
(./Article.bbl ./Article.bbl:38: Undefined control sequence. ...c@refsection @entry@blx@slist@name 1.38 \endentry ?
I am attaching .log file (just in case):
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IGiroud
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Re: TexLive and biblatex problem

Post by IGiroud »

I found the solution thanks to an user on another site. I had to get rid of the .bbl and recreate it again with biber.
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Re: TexLive and biblatex problem

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The smart way: Calm down and take a deep breath, read posts and provided links attentively, try to understand and ask if necessary.
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