Hi,
I have got Mendeley 1.9.1. as posted earlier, but I could not find the reply, every time the program opens, it starts to sync. This takes at least 5 minutes and maybe even longer. It annoys me utmost, and problem is I cannot include any papers in my word files during that time. Furthermore, if I have added new papers from pubmed with the import to mendeley button I need to resync to get the references in, which takes me another 5-10 minutes.
Is there a way not to sync old documents, just new ones? Is there another way to speed up the process considerably?
Thanks,
Lisethe Meijer
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Sync extremely slow
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Visual CSL Editor, changing ASA Style...
Dear all,
I am using the ASA (American Sociological Association) Style and do have some problems with the Editor
My goal is to use the following in-text-style: (Name 2013: 5)
I managed to add a "space" after the colon which is not default with ASA
I also changed "and" to "&".
However, if I have three authors, the citation remains: NameName& Name 2013: 5 - although I have a "comma + space" as delimiter.
Does anyone has the answer to this problem? (additionally I would be also grateful if someone would suggest another style that uses (Name 2013: 5)
Thanks a lot!!!
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Syncing Mendeley Desktop to Mendeley Web
Recently when I was backing up and restoring Mendeley database, Mendeley had a "hickup" which made Web and Desktop databases out of sync. More specifically "4400 our of 5500 files deleted, do you want to proceed?" type of out of sync (sounds familiar to anyone?). 1.5GB worth of pdf files out of sync. If I tried to sync the two, Mendeley would wipe out my local library AS WELL AS the pdf files, and no matter what I did I could not find a way to make it copy the local library to the web. Whether I made changes in local library to make it more recent and then synced, whatever, Mendeley happily decimated my local library and wiped out my local pdf files. I don't know whether Mendeley has some weird time zone glitches so one needs to wait a week for Web lib to become outdated, whatever, it just didn't work for me despite their "how sync works" theory on this support forum. So here are some guidelines for those of us who are about to back up Mendeley library, that I hope will be helpful to many others, learned the hard way.
1. Before backing up/restoring Mendeley database make YOUR OWN BACKUP of your entire library files. First, make a local copy of all your pdf files. It may be best to use Mendley's "organize library" feature before that, to put all your files in one folder. Then just make a copy of that folder and save it in a safe place. YES, MENDELEY WILL HAPPILY DELETE YOUR LOCAL PDF FILES IF THINGS GO BANANAS. Second, make an independent backup of Mendeley's database files. These can be found in your "{windows-user-directory}\AppData\Local\Mendeley Ltd\Mendeley Desktop" folder. You may need to enable hidden files in explorer to find it, or just type this path directly into your explorer's address bar. For me this was "C:\Users\gmyuriy\AppData\Local\Mendeley Ltd\Mendeley Desktop\". Once in that folder, take the files that look like "gmyuriy@hotmail.com@www.mendeley.com.sqlite" and "monitor.sqlite" and put them in a safe folder. YES YOU CAN ALWAYS RESTORE YOUR LOCAL MENDELEY TO ITS ORIGINAL STATE BY RESTORING YOUR PDF FILES FOLDER AND DRAGGING THESE TWO FILES BACK TO Mendeley's "AppData\Local\..." FOLDER.
2. If Mendeley went bananas during the restore, this is how you can get your library back: copy your pdf library back from your pdf library backup, and drag the sqlite files back into Mendeley's "AppData\Local\..." folder. This will restore your Mendeley's state to the before-the-crash conditions. Also note that even if Mendeley deleted your local pdf files, it doesn't really delete them, they still can be found in "Archive" subfolder of your pdf library's folder.
3. If your pdf links went broken, select all your pdf files in the pdf library in explorer and drag them onto any one entry in your Mendeley Dekstop entries list. Mendeley will parse the dropped files and try to resolve the links based on pdfs' hash values. This mostly worked for me, so I can recommend this method (sort of).
4. To restore sync between your Web and Desktop libraries, First, after restoring your library using your manual backups, make a new backup using Mendeley's builtin backup function. Second, go to your Mendeley's website, go to Library, and manually wipe it by deleting all files in your "All documents" folder and then emptying trash. Third, go to your Mendeley's desktop and select "Restore from backup" function using the backup you just created. This will wipe out both your local and remote data, copy your local data to Mendeley Web, and then copy it back. You need to manually wipe your Web library because Mendeley servers chock and die over "restore from backup" if your library is big enough. Fourth, although this will mostly get your library back, you may notice few hundred files missing in your library. To fix this up repeat the manual restore of the pdf files and the Mendeley's sqlite files in step 2. This will give back your local library, but be aware that Mendeley may still try to delete these files if you let it sync your libraries again. Don't let Mendeley sync libraries for some days, then make an update in your local library to make it newer then the Web, and try syncing again at a later point (without touching your Web library in between).
5. If after all these exercises you have had enough of Mendeley Web sync peculiarities, here is how to disable the sync completely - go to Mendeley Web and change your password there, but do not change your password in Mendeley Dekstop. This will prevent Mendeley from accessing your Web account and creating sync-problems for you in the future.
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Citation style: "S." instead of "pp." or "p." in visual editor?
I am trying to edit my citation style (Harvard ref format 1) so that it shows "s" instead of "p" or "pp" when inserting page number ("s" being short for the Swedish word for page, "sida").
I find how to change the formatting of the p/pp in the visual editor as well as the code section, but I can't find anywhere to change the actual acronym. Help?
/Daniel
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How to access Mendeley desktop
How do I access the Mendeley desktop?
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manually change order of references in text citation
I would like a way to manually re-order the in text citations in a particular reference list to allow me to group several references together at the end of a list that counter the other references. For example, I want the in text citation to read:
(Alves et al. 2007; Brown et al. 2003; Erdman 1983; Johnson et al. 1985; Nelson et al. 1981; Whitehead and Bowers 2013; Wink and Witte 1984; Wink and Witte 1985; Zangerl and Rutledge 1996; but see Dement and Mooney 1974; Ehrlen and Eriksson 1993; Isman et al. 1977)
I want the last three references to come after the "but see", but Mendeley automatically is ordering the references alphabetically and there doesn't seem to be a way to manually override this setting.
In EndNote I used to work around this issue by suppressing both the author name and the year (basically the entire ciation) for the citations I wanted at the end of the list and then adding them manually as a text "suffix" after the last citation in the first part of the list, but I don't see a way to suppress both the author name and year in Mendeley.
Thanks--any help would be appreciated!
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citation style
Could you guys include the Haemophilia journal citation style the mendeley?
I tried to do it by myself but it's quite complicated.
Thanks
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citing a source within a source
I am finding it difficult to cite a secondary source using Mendeley...please help
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PDF annotation
Are there any Windows applications which allow you to see and edit the Mendeley Annotations?
On the ipad in Good Reader there is a function which enables you to e-mail a summary list of your annotations which would be great in Mendeley, I was hoping maybe there is another application in windows which lets you do this
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Related to sync with desktop
I am not able to sync my mendeley desktop with web...
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Trash Will not Empty
I am completely unable to empty the trash. I have tried using the Desktop application and it appears to work, yet when it syncs again all the documents come back. When using the web interface it appears to do nothing. Even when selecting page for page in the web interface and then deleting it sticks on loading for a long time then nothing is deleted. Please help with this issue.
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EID: merr-523a7e81107ea
Hi,
I am getting the error EID: merr-523a7e81107ea and telling me to contact support. How could I possible solve this? Thanks in advance!
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EID: merr-523a8158316d3
Hello.
I had a error during synchronization.
Could you help me to fix this?
Thank you in advance.
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EID: merr-523a8497874e4
Now I am getting following error msg:
An unknown error has occurred, Mendeley has been notified. (EID: merr-523a86618f75c)
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Mendeley and Windows 8 RT
Hi, I was reading in Different posts that you aren't developing an app capable of running under Windows 8 RT, while you indeed has one for MAC and also for Ipad users... this means that all of us which are using windows surface are obligated to change the software? This doesn't make any sense.
My best
Mariano
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Automatic refresh of references list
Hi,
I am currently using Mendeley to insert references in a word document (I am using word 2007) But every some seconds the references in the document are refreshed automatically without pushing any buttons. I would like to know if it is possible to stop that.
Thanks a lot
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Citation format
Hello. I am trying to change a citation format to just (SURNAME, DATE). I have to use the Harvard system but it keeps giving me the author's initials as well. I have adjusted the Harvard 1 format in my Mendeley account using the True/False for 'Initializing' and saved the new format. I refer to the new format in my 'Mendeley Cite-O-Matic' function in MS WORD but the cite function will not give me my reference in the new format. I took a look at your video clip on re-programming the format but I avoid fiddling with code as it always end in frustration ........& failure(not being a programmer). Any ideas? Kev
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Filter papers that have notes
Hi,
Is there a way in Mendeley Desktop to filter or show only papers that I have made notes on?
Thanks.
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PDFs do not open
Hi, I created a folder for direct backup of PDFs. In this folder the PDFs were organized by author, year and title. Today, half of my PDFs were lost when synchronized. Authors and titles are listed on Mendeley (including DOI of Articles), but the PDF does not open. What is happening?
Att,
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Attachments keep isappearing
Over the last weeks, pdf files attached to entries disappear. The situation is actually getting worse. After trying manually (and hopelessly) to remedy the situation, I now notice that even a file may disappear even after a short while after being reattached. I have appr. 1320 files and entries. I don't use a cloud storing space. My files are kept and organised in a Mendeley Desktop folder on my hard disk. I have the latest version installed. I have tried various solutions suggested to users who have the same complaint to no a avail. This seems to be a serious flaw that degrades a promising service. Any suggestions are welcome. I thank you in advance for your attention.
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