A while ago, I imported my whole library into Mendeley. Now that I'm using it, I keep noticing that for some similar entries, the PDF attachments get mixed up. This seems to happen most often for entries that don't have a PMID or DOI, for example conference abstracts.
As an example, I have 6 different abstracts all by the same author, the same year, at the same conference. Other details are different, like the abstract number, title and co-authors. However, I just found that for all of them, the attachments had been replaced with just one of the abstracts. So each of the 6 entries still had an attachment, but they all had the same file (for abstract #1 of this group) not the actual true corresponding abstract.
I'm using the File Organizer, so I'm not sure if that's part of the problem.
I still have the original files, so I just deleted the duplicated ones and re-attached the correct ones. However, that's a big pain and I'd like to prevent this problem from happening again if I can. Any advice? Thanks very much in advance.
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