Dear all,
I met a problem when trying to move my Mendeley from Windows7 OS to linux Ubuntu 12.04.
Recently I begin to use linux as my working OS. So I install both the Windows7 and Ubuntu on my laptop.
According to the instruction from Mendeley "How do I backup my local database". http://support.mendeley.com/customer/portal/articles/227953
I made a backup from Windows OS. Then I installed Mendeley on Ubuntu and used "restore backup--other". All the folders and files recovered as before,BUT unfortunately, the PDF files' icon in every entry is "grey", so I can't open the PDF files.
I also tried other methods:
1) I checked the File Organizer (tools-options-file organizer) to let the path of "copy files to" to the same place in Windows.
2) I tried another way described in the instruction.I deleted all the contents in ~/.local/share/data/Mendeley Ltd./Mendeley Desktop/ and copied those from Windows7 in " %LOCALAPPDATA%\Mendeley Ltd.\Mendeley Desktop\".
Both of the methods failed to recover the linkage of entry and PDF.
I have tried to restore the library from windows7 to anther windows7 OS several months ago, when I reintalled my OS.I succeeded at that time.
So I'm wondering if it is caused by the difference of Windows and Linux?
Is there a instruction talking about moving the Mendeley between defferent operation systems?
Please help me, so that I can read those papers on the Linux.
Thanks a lot
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