![]() my online cloud/repository was crashing desktop software immediately after start (after connection is made).I had 2 years break from my sci efforts and after that period I've installed fresh new version of the desktop software and found few things: I've got impression that Mendeley is pushing energy into something that is not the desktop software for sure. ![]() The feedback forum has now become pretty much unusable - there are plenty of important things in there that have been "planned" or awaiting assessment for 2 or 3 years. Mendeley does have its evangelists, and it seems to have been very slick at cultivating its fanbase - more resources seem to have been spent there than on the software. This may have stopped now - I don't use Mendeley so much any more, because of this and other problems. The interface is klutzy, though I've yet to find a reference manager that had an interface I did like.Įarlier versions of Mendeley did occasionally corrupt the metadata, doing things like swapping round the lead and second author - unbelievably frustrating. Often, its guesses seem utterly bonkers, like it's just grabbed a few general words from the title, and gone off to find the closest match for those, in some subject that's completely alien to me. The auto-grab of references from the web is patchy, and you may find you're often correcting it. I've also found the technical support to be very slow, and often unsatisfactory. The one batch search & replace it does do very well is that when you get two versions of an author's name, you can drag one name onto the other, and all the papers will get updated accordingly. There is some batch update, in that you can select several papers, and add the same metadata to all in one go: but that's not the same as a batch search & replace. The search is pretty decent, though I often find I use Acrobat search instead - its word-stemming seems better.īatch replacement is very weak - the only way to do it is to go into the database yourself and tweak it. PS - for steps above, it helps to show paragraph marks (the backwards 'P' icon in Word Doc | Home | Paragraph ribbon.Yes, Mendeley does offer export - BibTex, RIS, and EndNote XML. however, after clicking on topic, and being presented with a brand new list of topics (that don't show the thread/topic I selected), I (wisely or unwisely) immediately gave up pursuing further. Note: appears to be similar problem described in Mendeley support under topic 'CSL problem' here. otherwise just ignore the error (although it is irritating). it's almost as though an entire page in Word becomes 'buggy' and needs to be deleted for error to buzz off. This solved problem for me - I can then add another reference(s) after 'author_test', and remove 'author_test'.
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