Sonny Software

Thank you again for your response. You are absolutely correct about the global change that allows copying rather than moving. I totally missed that.

Unfortunately, I could only transfer 236 references in 21 seconds using the direct import you suggested. I assume EndNote must be the rate-limiting ...

Thank you for your responses.

Let me try a different approach, starting with the task of non-destructively importing and unifying several EndNote libraries into Bookends.

EndNote libraries store PDF attachments in a subfolder of the data directory, labeled 'PDF', at the same level as the library's ...

Thank you. Importing directly from EndNote is slow, and has now twice corrupted my EndNote database. Maybe it is an EndNote bug, but it happens.

What I am doing is exporting the EndNote library to an XML file before importing it to Bookends using:

File → Import References → From File or ...

When importing references from EndNote XML, is there a way that Bookends would copy the PDF attachments to its own default folder rather than maintaining links to several ad hoc folders that, especially with network drives, can be slow?
Thanks!

Thank you. Setting the "Attachment folder" to the root folder of the XML's folder hierarchy worked.

I have an XML file from EndNote listing the PDF attachments with their absolute paths. It appears that Bookends, upon importing, truncates these paths, and the "Attachments" pane shows an error message that the PDF attachment cannot be found.

Is Bookends removing the path information?
Is there a ...

Thanks. I clearly misunderstood how it was supposed to work. This is actually very useful!

Perhaps a bug:

Create a Smart Folder. It works as expected.

Add a Smart Group (SQL) to it that shows a subset of the Smart Folder. The containing Smart Folder now only shows the restricted content of the contained item.

Add a different subgroup of the containing Smart Folder as a Smart Group ...

Thank you for your response. I am now officially a registered customer. I know of the Valentina engine but have never used it (only used SQLite as embedded engine). I often download my subscribed journals, annotate them and save them in a batch. Hence the request for persistence option of fields ...

Thanks for reading this Jon:
I am a long-time EndNote user, and I have written custom programs to address its missing features features when I need PubMed. I have repeatedly considered switching to Bookends since I also use Mellel but have not been able to convert due to workflow inefficiencies.
I ...

Thank you again for your response.

Yes - I knew that was the browser view. I started with an unrecognized PDF, from where I went to the Autocomplete Paper dialog and imported the relevant citation. However, I ended up with the unexpected result that I showed in the image.

In other words, I ...

Thanks for the reply - yes you are correct, I was referring to PDFs. I did not grasp the "Autocomplete Paper ..." function's logic. It appears to create a new detached reference (shows two paperclips but no attachment - please see attachment).

The Autocomplete Paper function's workflow might be ...

Thank you whoever posted this - this is the reason I have not purchased Bookends yet. Please consider the following feature requests that I hope would benefit many:

1. Selected PDF text could be searched (via right-click) using PubMed.
2. Selected PDF text could be assigned (via right-click) to ...