[Tex/LaTex] BibTeX suddenly failed thesteriously

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This is my first question here. I have a problem that bibtex just suddenly failed me. I get the following error message in the console but it doesn't help me much. What does "This operation is supported only when you are connected to the server" mean?

This is BibTeX, Version 0.99d (MiKTeX 2.9)
The top-level auxiliary file: biblatex_ex.aux
The style file: biblatex.bst

bibtex.EXE: Windows API error 1251: This operation is supported only
when you are connected to the server.

bibtex.EXE: Data:
\dustaff\home\kss\Documents\PaperI\texbib:bibPaper1.bib texify:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex\bin\bibtex.EXE" failed for
some reason.

Thankful for any help.

Best Answer

There might be a new entry in your bibliography file with a badly formatted URL field. First locate such entry and correct the url field (or remove it if you're not interested in urls).

Then clean all the auxiliary files and try again.

P.S. When downloading bibtex entries from conferences and journals websites, one has to be careful about the way they have formatted them. As an example IEEE have their own style and if you are not using that style, the resulting bibliography might be unexpectedly problematic!