hello,
Is there a way to enter "forthcoming" in the 'year' dialogue box in library entries?
If not is there a way to stop the "n.d." appearing so that I can enter "forthcoming" as a suffix?
If not is there a fix in the pipeline for later editions?
Best wishes,
Matt
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How to enter "forthcoming" in the year dialogue box?
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word citation & sync failure urgent!!!
Hello,
the last few days word citation (Word 2007, Win 2007) and the sync are in and out of function (always together). When I work offline and mendeley can´t sync it will not do it when I switch to online. I even allowed mendeley to bypass the firewall. Restarting the computer and uninstalling and reinstalling the word plugin do not help. When I want to cite in word I get two popups. One says Mendeley is already running (I have it in the background, I know that its supposed to be running) and the second that it can´t be opended automatically please try manually and can´t connect to http: /allowSetFocus.
I am a few days to submitting my dissertation maybe you can imagine how disappointing this is!!!
Sandra
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LOW PERFORMANCE
I´m using Mendeley desktop (Version 1.8.4) and Windows Word 2007. I´ve been using citations and bibliography tools very properly, but as my file is getting bigger, the citation process is becoming very very slow. I have to spend more than 90 seconds to include just a single reference. The refresh process is also too slow. Can I do something to get a better performance? I made a test with the file and it seems that with OpenOffice the performance is better, but I´m affraid to loose my time learning a new software if there is a solution using Word.
I have already re-installed Mendeley and the plug-ins, but it doesn´t solved my problem.
Can you help me?
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Setting group library as default
I have set up a private group library where I have invited members to share access. We would like to set this group library as our default library (i.e. we do not want the option to use the My Library on each person's desktop). Is this possible?
We have been using the group library as we are sharing the library amongst 20 people in our company. We have encountered issues with duplicates when a citation was inserted into a document before duplicates were merged. Mendeley seems to be unable to automatically replace the citations with the merged copy of the reference, and is forcing us to restore documents from the trash (the option to use a similar document in the library fails to find any documents, we suspect this is because it is looking in “My Library” first rather than the shared library which is the only library we use).
Any help/suggestions would be much appreciated.
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Problems citing books in reference manager
I am using Mendeley reference manager for my papers. Citing articles is very easy, either I have them already in Mendeley, or I just google them quickly and use the web importer to easily cite them.
However, I'm not sure how to do that with books or book chapters easily. Most of them aren't easily available online (importable through the web importer). Do you have to implement books manually into Mendeley? And book chapters?
Thank you
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Edit settings tab problem
Hello.
I'm using Windows 7, and the app seems to have some problems. When clicking on the "Edit settings" tab, nothing appears (i.e. no information, like a white page). It takes about 10 minutes for the app to show the corresponding options.
I think some other things are related to whatever is causing the problem. For example, when going to options, in the "general" tab, it also takes a very very long time (about 10-15 mins) to retrieve information about my storage.
All this wouldn't be important, but when it comes to citation styles, I get issues. Whenever I download any new style, nothing happens, and they are never added to my installed ones. When editing existing styles, when I try to save my changes, it says it cannot connect to the server.
Is worth mentioning that the functionality of the app is working and syncing properly when it comes to the documents. Also, I guess is not an account issue because I can use the Mac app without any of this problems in a different laptop. Regarding proxy (which I thought could be an issue) I am under university one but the option "use system connection" is on and seems to work.
I am finding Mendeley a great tool for work (just started using it a couple of days ago) but still cannot pass the initial setup phase of using a new program because of these issues (particularly the citation one). Please give this in need Phd student a hand.
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LibreOffice Extentsion Painfully slow to insert citation. How can I speed it up?
Inserting citations into Libre Office Writer 4.0.2.2 using Mendeley 1.8.4 (on Windows 7) is PAIN FULLY slow. My paper is only 7 pages long with perhaps about 20-30 citations (biblio has not been inserted yet) and adding a new citation takes perhaps 15 seconds!
I wonder what the time would be when the document is about 50 pages long!!!!. This is a killer! I can not wait for 15-20 seconds every 2-3 lines of writing!
People have published custom VBA source code for MS Office Mendeley extension to speed it up. Can you please make the Libre Office extension source code public so we can fix it ourselves? or please fix it ASAP!
Please make the source code for libre-office extension open-source so we can fix the issues ourselves if you don't have the time to fix them.
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Inserting a Bibliography
I switched the Bibliography format style to fit the journal Ecology. However when I click the "Insert Bibliography" function, Mendeley inserts two bibliographies, one at the start and one at the finish. Can you help me troubleshoot this issue?
Here are the other possible factors that are involved:
- I also have EndNoteX6 installed, but I am not using any Endnote libraries for this document.
- I am using Microsoft Office 2010.
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Web Importer problem
Web importer stopped working. I get request to "log in" which becomes an endless loop of requests. I deleted the Import to Mendeley tab in my favourites bar and created new favorite and added to favourite bar but it is just the web site with instructions. Which when followed just adds the web page to a favourite folder.
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relink folder of files
Dear team of Mendeley,
I had to format move all my files away from my computer and them move them back in a way that the location was not the same as the previous. I had all my files backed up in an hard drive and I thought that once back in Mendeley I could simply set the new location of my folder and I would have all my files and my entries organised as before.
I was surprised to see that was not the case. Before reseting my files I came here to the support to look for the correct steps. But instead I could only find posts in which people say is not that simple and Mendeley support suggesting them just to drag the files back to Mendeley again.
Well, as other people I was also afraid that this could make Mendeley could update my entries using the information on the PDF (which normally turns out to be wrong). In Mendeley preference I reset the location for the file organiser pointing to my new location where all my were already. A message came out telling me that there was alredy files there (of course, all the files were exactly there, very organised). I didn't knew what to expect considering the location for the files to be imported would be also the same location where Mendeley makes copies. It didn't worked. I also set the same location as "watched folder" expecting that would relocate every thing... but not! I have followed the inscturction by Mendeley support telling to drag the files back in the software and it would link them. But it doesn't work, Seems that with the watched folders several files were identified and relinked, but several were not.
I dont know what to say it is all so confuse for something that should be extremely simple. I cant know if my library took the files downloading them from the internet or from the hard disk. And worst since I have hundred of entries I can't know if my entries is still the same. And I still have several links broken having no idea how to fix them because dragging the files to the software just don't work. Argh. It is so frustrating. Do you have any help?
Thank in advance.
Miro
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referencing in multi MS-Word files
Hello
i have problem, i am working on my thesis and i am writing every chapter on a single word file, i use IEEE style for citation. i cite in chapter one the papers [1] ,[2] ,... [10]. when i want to cite the reference [10] again in chapter 2 it appears as [1] the world can not remember that i cite it already in chapter one with the number [10]. is there any way to preserve the numbers. and i don't want to put all the chapters on one file because i have many equations and word becomes very slow when i am trying to move between pages.
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Restore the PDF links to the original location, not the "File Organizer" one
How to restore the PDF links to the original location, not the "File Organizer" one?
I have over 1500 PDFs, from different locations, not only the watched folder.
I use File Organizer to rename them and put them in one folder (I use Dropbox to archive them).
Now, all my links to the PDFs are linked to the File Organizer folder, and not the original one. I want when I open the PDFs externally - to be opened in the original location. When I make updates and comments, those to be saved in the original location, no the new one.
Please help me how to restore the original links to the PDFs.
Thank you,
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2 problems referencing with the 'Cell' style
I am using the 'Cell style reference and have encountered two issues when updating my bibliography.
1 - Authors with multiple papers published in the same year should appear Hopper et al (2007a), Hopper et al (2007b)etc... according to the order they appear in the document. However, in my document this is reversed so Hopper et al (2007b)comes before Hopper et al (2007a). I have tried refreshing but this doesn't solve the problem.
2 - I have referenced a website in text, however in the bibliography it does not state the website address or date accessed. Is there any way of putting this in without manually editing the bibliography?
Thanks for any help!
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The filter by keyword section
The filter by keyword section appears to be missing from my desktop version - where can it have gone !!!!!!
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Mendeley Suggests and Web Import
Mendeley Suggests has stopped working both in Desktop and Dashboard.
All that load is a small graphic of unknown source.
Also Web import is still not working with a circular request to log on to Mendeley.
The java script is:
javascript:document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].appendChild(document.createElement('script')).setAttribute('src','https://www.mendeley.com/minified/bookmarklet.js');
Thanks for any help.
Michael
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latest version
When I try to import a document file to Mendeley, I am warned that I am using an old version of the Web importer.
I download the up-date. Help message tells that I am using desktop 1.8.4.
But I still cannot import the document to Mendeley.
Would you please tell me what I should do?
I need your help.
Regards,
Miyuki Mizutani
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version up
When I try to import a document file to Mendeley, I am warned that I am using an old version of the Web importer.
I download the up-date. Help message tells that I am using desktop 1.8.4.
But I still cannot import the document to Mendeley.
Would you please tell me what I should do?
I need your help.
Regards,
Miyuki Mizutani
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MS/LibreOffice plugin not finding the ...
The Libre Office Plugin (Mendeley 1.8.4) seems not to work with Libre Office 4.0.3.3, nor with MS Office 2007. When entering the author's name, no results are coming up...it basically searches forever (at least for several minutes, but can't let it search in the background for longer because the plugin window disappears completely when the LibreOffice is minimized; another bug...).
I tried de/reinstalling the plugin as well as Libre Office, but without success.
My computer is not the fastest but it used to work well with previous Mendeley and LibreOffice versions. The Mendeley library isn't too large either...maybe 50 papers.
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Lose linkage to PDF files (moving from Win7 to Ubuntu linux)
Dear all,
I met a problem when trying to move my Mendeley from Windows7 OS to linux Ubuntu 12.04.
Recently I begin to use linux as my working OS. So I install both the Windows7 and Ubuntu on my laptop.
According to the instruction from Mendeley "How do I backup my local database". http://support.mendeley.com/customer/portal/articles/227953
I made a backup from Windows OS. Then I installed Mendeley on Ubuntu and used "restore backup--other". All the folders and files recovered as before,BUT unfortunately, the PDF files' icon in every entry is "grey", so I can't open the PDF files.
I also tried other methods:
1) I checked the File Organizer (tools-options-file organizer) to let the path of "copy files to" to the same place in Windows.
2) I tried another way described in the instruction.I deleted all the contents in ~/.local/share/data/Mendeley Ltd./Mendeley Desktop/ and copied those from Windows7 in " %LOCALAPPDATA%\Mendeley Ltd.\Mendeley Desktop\".
Both of the methods failed to recover the linkage of entry and PDF.
I have tried to restore the library from windows7 to anther windows7 OS several months ago, when I reintalled my OS.I succeeded at that time.
So I'm wondering if it is caused by the difference of Windows and Linux?
Is there a instruction talking about moving the Mendeley between defferent operation systems?
Please help me, so that I can read those papers on the Linux.
Thanks a lot
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Importing / saving to Mendeley
When I try to import / save to mendeley I am requested to enter password, when already signed in. So when I try to sign in message states already signed in but when I try to re-save the message returns. Please help, I have reinstalled.
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