I have recently:
1) saved a paper : paper.pdf, in a Mendeley watched folder on machine 1
2) Mendeley added it to the library : perfect
3) annotated the paper in an external program (pdf annotator)
4) saved it. closed it. pressed sync on mendeley on machine 1
5) opened mendeley on machine 2, pressed sync. Mendeley downloaded my paper into User/AppData/Local/Mendeley LTD/Mendeley Desktop/Downloaded
(what the heck... also where can I change the default download directory? I don't want to change the "copy everything to here" directory because I don't want copies. I just want to control where Mendeley saves things)
6) Opened pdf on machine 2 in pdf annotator. Annotated pdf.
7) pressed sync on mendeley.
8) Opened up machine 1. Pressed sync on mendeley.
9) No changes.....................................
Upon inspection, on machine 1 this file is "paper.pdf" and on machine 2 it is "author - year - title.pdf" (guessing Mendeley did that from the collected metadata. So no wonder, it probably thinks it should deal with it as 2 different files. What the heck!??!?! Why isn't there just a "sync folder" a-la Dropbox/SkyDrive/every-other-cloud-storage-service-ever that retains metadata/filenames from machine to machine. This is ridiculous/confusing. Really don't understand what the point of your online cloud storage is at all if it can't do this basic task. I don't want 100000 copies of the same paper all with different little annotations scattered across my workstations. In fact I think I can safely say that no one does. Fix?
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