[Tex/LaTex] Biblatex and biber error message

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I can't explain myself why I get the following error message from Overleaf where I have my latex file:

Package biblatex Error: File '[file's name]' not created by biblatex.

(Please note)
This is the corrected preamble that I fixed after turning things around:

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[english]{babel}



\usepackage[
backend = biber, 
style = apa, 
defernumbers=false]{biblatex}
\DeclareLanguageMapping{english}{american-apa}

\addbibresource{quanti_lit.bib} %name of the .bib file with my references

\usepackage{lineno}
\usepackage [autostyle, english = american]{csquotes} % US EN quotation marks
\MakeOuterQuote{"}

\usepackage{hyperref}

\begin{document} 
\linenumbers


My first reference within parenthesis \parencite{Cohen}

My second reference with a year in parenthesis \textcite{Allwood2003}

 \printbibliography[keyword={ref},title={References 1}]
 \printbibliography[keyword={GJ},title={References 2}]
 \end{document}

Here are the two examples of references that I stored separately in the quanti_lit.bib file

@InProceedings{Allwood2003,
  Title                    = {A study of gestural feedback expressions},
  Author                   = {Allwood, Jens and Cerrato, Loredana},
  Booktitle                = {First Nordic Symposium on Multimodal Communication},
  Year                     = {2003},
  Address                  = {Copenhagen, Denmark},
  Pages                    = {7-22},
  keyword                  = {ref}
}
@article{Cohen1960,
author = {Cohen, Jacob},
journal = {Educational and Psychological Measurement},
pages = {2030},
title = {{A coefficient of agreement for nominal scales}},
volume = {46},
year = {1960},
keyword                = {GJ}
}

Looking forward to your comments!

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The problem does not occur when compiling from the command line using the desired BibTex engine as I could run your MWE without any error on my Terminal.

The message occurs when the .tex file or other configuration files specify BibTeX while TeXShop specifies another. For example, you get a similar error, when the settings in TeXShop specify biber rather than bibtex while your .tex file contains \usepackage[round]{natbib}, or conversely, when a .tex file might use a class file to manage styles (.cls) specifying biber like \RequirePackage[backend=biber]{biblatex}.

The .bbl files created by a normal BibTeX run and a Biber run are completely different and they are not compatible with each other. Surely, you've used a file where a normal bibliography was used and afterwards you've switched to biblatex. That's why biblatex is complaining that "the .bbl file has not been created".

The solution is to delete the .bbl file and run pdflatex and biber again. Don't use BibTex or LaTex while you should be using pdflatexand biber.

Here is the output of your MWE:

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This is a rather minimal, but compilable test example. Does this example (saved, say, as biblatextest.tex) compile for you without errors? If not, what does the logfile (biblatextest.txt), especially the section *File List, say?

EDIT: The proper compile sequence for the example (if one doesn't use a makefile like latexmk) is

-pdflatex biblatextest
-biber biblatextest
-pdflatex biblatextest

Note the use of biber as a replacement for bibtex!

\listfiles

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[backend=biber]{biblatex}

\usepackage{filecontents}

\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@misc{A01,
  author = {Author, A.},
  year = {2001},
  title = {Alpha},
}
\end{filecontents}

\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}

\begin{document}

Some text \autocite{A01}.

\printbibliography

\end{document}

(The filecontents environment is only used to include some external files directly into the example, so that it compiles. It is not necessary for the solution.)

EDIT 2: In response to the updated question: In the code snippet \autocite{A01}, A01 is the citekey of the first (and only) bibentry in my .bib file (it starts with @misc{A01, misc being the BibTeX type). What do you expect when you cite an entry that isn't included in your .bib file?

EDIT 3: That's a new question, isn't it? ;-) To remove [hep-ex] from every bibliography entry, add the following to your preamble:

\AtEveryBibitem{\clearfield{eprintclass}}

And yes, XeLaTeX instead of pdfLaTeX may be worth a try. For details see Frequently loaded packages: Differences between pdfLaTeX and XeLaTeX.

[Tex/LaTex] pdflatex+ biblatex + biber and special characters produce error

I think the problem is that you did not insert http:// inside \href in your .bib file, together with the fact that you have to insert \ before each %.

Try to modify it in this way, it seems to work for me:

@misc{wiki3,
author = {Wikipedia},
title = {Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune},
howpublished = {\href{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pr\%C3\%A9lude_\%C3\%A0_l'apr\%C3\%A8s-midi_d'un_faune}{en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prélude\_à\_l'après-midi\_d'un\_faune}},
note = "[Zugriff am 12. Mai 2013 um 19:35]"
}

ADDENDUM

This is just a suggestion.

When your bibliography item is an online resource, the online entry can be used instead of misc.

You can then substitute

@misc{wiki3,

with

@online{wiki3,

and

howpublished = {\href{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pr\%C3\%A9lude_\%C3\%A0_l'apr\%C3\%A8s-midi_d'un_faune}{en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prélude\_à\_l'après-midi\_d'un\_faune}},

with

url = {http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prélude_à_l'après-midi_d'un_faune},

Note that, in any case, the field url can be used inside any entry type, misc included.

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