We have two Macs with Mendeley 1.9.1 and a free 2GB account on the web.
On computer A there is a database with about 600 documents with the attached files NOT synching to the web because of size restrictions (total is about 4GB). File organizer is ON and pointing to the default location.
We created two new folders with a subset of all documents in each and set one of the two folders to synch with the web. After synching the files were on the web. Then we start Mendeley on the second machine. File Organizer is ON as well and pointing to the default location (the absolute path is different however, since the user name is different - by the way: is it possible to use relative paths like ~/Documents/Mendeley Desktop?). We then sync on the second machine. The attached files of the folder that is set to sync are downloaded to the second machine.
Then on the first machine we set the first folder to NOT synch and synch again. The files on the web are deleted. Then we set the second folder on the first machine to synch and do a synch. Now the second batch of attached files are transferred to the web.
We start the second machine and to a synch. In the database the documents in the first folder lose their connections to the corresponding attached files in the local Mendeley Desktop folder. The files themselves are still there. The files of the documents in the second folder are downloaded.
Now on the first machine we turn on again synching for the first folder and turn off synching for the second folder. The attached files are synched to the web but never to the second machine. They are still available in the Mendeley Desktop folder but they are not attached to the documents in the second folder on the second computer. And we were not able to get them attached again (other than by manually attaching them). On the first computer the files are still attached to the documents in the second folder.
How can we reset the synch process?
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