Dear Mendeley team,
is there a way of sharing my folder structure with my colleagues?
I've sorted our 700-papers-libraray into folders in Mendeley and would like to share that structure with my co-workers. Or do they have to start sorting all over again fpr themselves?
Thanks for your kind help,
Manuela
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Sharing folder structure
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library folders keep disappearing
Dear Mendeley team,
I ran into a rather puzzling problem while using the desktop application. I had just finished importing a paper in one of the folders in my library using the Add files button; after successfully importing the PDF file, I copied the reference in two other folders and the application started syncing with the web account. After a couple of seconds I realized that while syncing, my folders started disappearing from my desktop library. By the time I canceled the syncing process, I ended up with only one folder, out of more than 10. I restored a back-up that I made just before syncing and all the folders re-appeared. After a while I closed the desktop application and restarted it - just to notice that my folders were gone once more, excepting one. Now every time I open the application, I have to restore the back-up so that I can have access to my article collections. All the disappearing folder are not group folders; those seem to not be affected by whatever is causing this issue.
I am using Mendeley Desktop version 1.8.4 on Windows 7 32-bit, Home Premium with Service Pack 1.
Any suggestions are welcome, as it is kind o frustrating to do the restore business every time I restart the application.
Many thanks!
Best,
Ciprian
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crashes almost everytime I close an article
Hi,
almost every time I have several articles open in the Mendeley desktop and I try to close them one by one in some point the program will crash and close. It is not happen every time I close a document but probably it is right for every other document.
I used few versions and right know I even installed the 1.9 dev. I tried to uninstall and reset and delete local database several time.
Your help is much appreciated.
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Getting email/password incorrect always?
I always keep getting the message that email/password is incorrect; although with same combination I am able to login to mendeley @www.mendeley.com!!
Any help?
-Vin. Sahula
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Reference format
I love the way Mendeley organizes my references, but it NEVER gets any of the references right in the bibliography list. I have to go back and edit almost every single one.
Doe anyone else have this problem? Or even better yet, a possible solution?
Also, if there is no other way then to manually edit them, is there a way to save everything in the Mendeley desktop so that I can use those edits in future papers?
Thanks!
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where is the filter by function?
I cannot find it. If someone could give me a description then I could ascertain if I am stupid or there is a problem with the programme? Thx
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Mendeley cannot locate pdf files
After a crash of my hard drive, I re-installed Mendeley and my pdf library (folder with all my pdf). I used a Mendeley back up and use the sync on line to set up my Mendeley database on my new computer.
The database is there, with all the annotation and correct references. However all the links to the pdf files are lost. It is tedious to re-enter the location manually.
Is there any way to do it automatically?
Thanks in advance;
Olivier
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the word reviewing pane is broken with the mendeley plugin
When in Word 2013 with the Mendeley plugin, using the reviewing pane to view changes in the document, after clicking a change in the pane, Word used to scroll to the location of the change. Instead, the contents of the documents is displayed in the review pane. This does not happen when the mendeley plugin is uninstalled.
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edit author
If I have to correct or complete document details like title or author, are those stored within the pdf-file? So, if I share a pdf with my colleague, will he or she see the corrected/completed title or author of the document? Or does my colleague have to start all over again?
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Unable to install the Microsoft Word Plugin
Dear experts,
I'm working under Mac 10.6.8. I have installed Mendeley Desktop and now I'm trying to configure the MS Word 2011 plugin. I get the following error after clicking on install MS Word Plugin:
Unable to install the Mendeley Word Plugin.
Details:1: Could not find platform independent libraries prefix
Could not find platform dependent libraries exec_prefix
Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to prefix[:exec_prefix]
'import site' failed; use -v for traceback
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Applications/Mendeley Desktop.app/Contents/MacOS/../Resources/macWordPlugin/word2011/install-vba-plugin.py", line 17, in module
import MacOS
ImportError: No module named MacOS
Any ideas of why is that happening?
Thanks
Jose
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Mendeley desktop insists that documents I have deleted must be included in my document folder
I have several PDFs that were initially included in my mendeley document list. I have since removed them by deleting them out of the mendeley desktop, out of the document folder and out of the archive folder (ie I think I have completely erradicated them from the system). if I go without opening mendeley desktop the files stay gone. However the moment I open mendeley and it syncs the documents reappear. I am using mendeley 1.8.4, on a windows 7 computer and have spent several afternoons looking at all the various ways that are recommended for removing documents from mendeley. Is there a way to convince Mendeley to actually delete the files?
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import multiple EndNote XML files - inconsistent results
Dear Mendeley support,
One of our customers recently encountered a problem using Mendeley for a systematic review. She had 2 source files 'A' and 'B'(EndNote XML) with around 5000-6000 references each, that she imported into 2 separate folders.
It can be expected that the import of the second file results is less references than the file contains due to duplicates that are automatically removed. However, the problem is that the end result (total # of references) differs depending on which file (A or B) is imported first and which second.
(between the two experiments (1: import A than B; 2: import B than A) all references were deleted from the account.
Perhaps even more worrisome, when I tried to repeat the same workflow (again, deleting all data in between) I got different results (different numbers) still.
To illustrate, here are the numbers:
file A contains 6710 references
file B contains 4772 references
Customer workflow 1:
import A leads to 6710 references in folder A
import B leads to 4588 references in folder B
total # references: 8070
Customer workflow 2:
import B leads to 4772 references in folder B
import A leads to 6538 references in folder A
total # references: 7825 (??)
Librarian workflow 1:
import A leads to 6710 references in folder A
import B leads to 4587 references in folder B
total # references: 7813 (??)
Librarian workflow 2:
import B leads to 4553 (??) references in folder B
import A leads to 6466 references in folder A
total # references: 7536 (??)
If you need the original files I could send them using WeTransfer, as they are around 80 MB.
I hope you can shed any light on what is happening here!
kind regards,
Bianca Kramer
Utrecht University Library
Utrecht, The Netherlands
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connect to medley web
I have this error when I try to connect to Mendley Web. Please help
Network Error Message: 'Unable to send HTTP request to /api/files/create.xml?document_id=5897515854&group_id=0&av=1.0&id=MendeleyDesktop&cv=1.8.4&l=en-GB&ins=272196eb-efb9-4c1f-8b97-54f8a0afc2fd&osv=Win-f0'
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Error with Syncing Annotations
I annotated a couple of documents but after experiencing some errors with my PC, I re-installed the operating system after which Mendeley did not sync the documents with the annotations. And yes I synced my Mendeley account before formatting my PC.
Please Assist!!!!
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sync times out.
I have messed up somehow (inadvertently deleting records) and my data is all gone. I have tried several things, after making a local copy of my Mendeley Desktop info.
So, I went the standard route attempting a recovery of my backups. The only problem is that I consistently get a Network Error Message: 'The request timed out.'it says. This is evidently related to the size of the backup I reckon, 32k records, but should not be so! I have tried this at work and home, where I have very good and speedy connection.
What could be another way to get this backup to work?
This is very hard for me, I do not recommend this to happen to any researcher. I invested all my reference collecting from several years which I can now say that Mendeley is about to throws though the window, should I be unable to restore that information.
Any help is appreciated...
Thanks
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could not connect to mendeley web
why i could not connect to mendeley web?
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could not connect to mendeley web
why i could not connect to mendeley web?
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most frequently occurring author
Hi,
Is there a way to find out the most prominent or frequently occurring authors in my database?
Thanks!
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Encoding bug in Bibtex export
I think I found a bug in the bibtex export filter:
Here is the the author list as entered in Mendeley:
Olsen, Maria Belland
Jacobsen, Line Melå
Schistad, Elina Iordanova
Pedersen, Linda Margareth
Rygh, Lars Jørgen
Røe, Cecilie
Gjerstad, Johannes
Here is the entry from the export:
author = {Olsen, Maria Belland and Jacobsen, Line Mel\aa and Schistad, Elina Iordanova and Pedersen, Linda Margareth and Rygh, Lars J\o rgen and R\o e, Cecilie and Gjerstad, Johannes},
If I understand correctly, when TeX decodes the backslashed sequences any spaces after them are removed.
Hence J\o rgen becomes Jørgen (which is correct).
But
Jacobsen, Line Mel\aa and Schistad, Elina Iordanova
becomes
Jacobsen, Line Melåand Schistad, Elina Iordanova
Thus the two author's names are joined and the separator " and " is no longer dicernible.
The space needs to be protected by a backslash.
I tried version 1.8.4 of Mendeley Desktop for Mac OS X (10.7.5).
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Unable to download PDFs while on Wireless Network
Hello,
I'm using MendeleyDesktop on a Macbook PRO. However I can't download any PDFs shared by others,irrespective of being connected to the network by Wireless or through Ethernet cable, if that matters.
How to solve this problem?
Thanks
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