Various pdfs have gone missing from my Mendeley Desktop interface. Some of them may have been deleted from the downloads folder (although I have my preferences set up to organize my pdfs to the Mendeley Desktop folder on my mac). At least one was still in the downloads folder. In this case, the citation was there in Mendeley Desktop, but no pdf icon or download or broken link icon.
I just re-added the file to the citation, and synced with Mendeley Web (I thought the citation wasn't there, because searching for the author names did not bring it up, but when I went through the list manual, it was there. Perhaps the search function also needs some help!).
I checked another missing pdf - it is also missing in my Web library (though the citation is there).
There are a number of other pdfs missing, and there doesn't seem to be a good pattern (some new, some old, etc.). This has just happened recently. May be related to recent software upgrade?
Is there a way to restore these pdfs and/or prevent them from going missing?
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