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• Jacques Raubenheimer commented  ·  April 5, 2013 5:47 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  I agree with the implementation suggestion that says that when the PDF is dragged and dropped into the library, it gets imported with a new entry created from the extracted metadata, and then when it is dropped onto an existing document, it gets assigned as a file to that existing document. But perhaps, to avoid confusion, when the latter occurs, a messagebox should ask the user whether they want to associate the file with the document in question or import the file and create a new document. This will prevent confusion amongst current users who are accustomed to the import functioning.

• Jonathan Gelbord commented  ·  February 16, 2013 11:57 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Add me to the folks requesting this.

  One possible implementation: drag a PDF into the library of Mendeley Desktop and a new library entry is created from the extracted metadata, drag the PDF instead to the details of a selected paper and it gets assigned to that paper directly.

• Dan commented  ·  January 5, 2013 8:57 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Ideally, this should support batch mode. (Imagine I have a local folder of pdf files and a Mendeley sync'ed library without pdfs). Currently, even if the local folder filenames are generated by Mendeley before (e.g., on a different machine without pdf sync enabled), Mendeley cannot link the library entries to the local PDFs.

• Carsten Lemmen commented  ·  November 29, 2012 5:53 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  @mendeley Are you still looking into this? Or are you just busy polishing for retina interface instead of crucial functionality?

• Graham Poulter commented  ·  July 3, 2012 4:38 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Ok found a way: "You can attach a PDF file via the Files heading in the reference’s Details tab in Mendeley Desktop. It is not possible to attach PDF files to references in the online library. Apologies for any inconvenience this may cause you."

• Jonathan commented  ·  June 15, 2012 2:39 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Not working for me, in version 1.5.2 running on OSX 10.7.4. This feature would make my life a lot easier. I currently have a bunch of PDFs that aren't linked to citations, and manually selecting them through finder is very time consuming.

• Lani commented  ·  May 7, 2012 10:16 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  This was suggested more than three years ago by the Mendeley team itself but still not implemented. I think this is a very important functionality because if you spend a lot of time fixing the metadata then move your files the process of re-linking them is very very time consuming.

• Ulrich Baumann commented  ·  March 27, 2012 1:43 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Not working for me either using Chrome. In Safari I can drop it but meta data are not read at all. This is much better in Bookends and Sente.

• Anonymous commented  ·  March 19, 2012 11:48 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Not working for me in Chrome. This is a real bummer.

• Anonymous commented  ·  February 17, 2012 10:14 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Uh... I just tried this as well in 1.3.1 PC.... and it didn't work.

  I'm trying to add pdfs to metadata that I pulled in from CiteULike but its not attaching.

• André commented  ·  January 26, 2012 3:51 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  I just tested it (Linux, Mendeley 1.3.1) and it worked. I guess this task should be marked "completed" ?

• Chad Curtis commented  ·  October 20, 2011 7:53 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  I was just testing this on a couple examples: It works in 1.1.2 on OS X. Should this be updated as complete?

• Carl Anderson commented  ·  October 19, 2011 2:26 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Oh, yes -- I'm glad to see this is planned. :) I look forward to its implementation.

• Anonymous commented  ·  September 8, 2011 9:50 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Just stumbled upon this. It's really stupid that this is not incorporated.

• Anonymous commented  ·  July 26, 2011 7:53 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  This could be good, but I don't want to accidently attach PDF's to a reference when I drag into Mendeley

• Jason Luoma commented  ·  July 23, 2011 6:32 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  This would be really useful to me too! I hope this get implemented

• Jason Luoma commented  ·  July 23, 2011 6:31 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  This would be really useful to me too.

• Nicolet Theunissen commented  ·  July 19, 2011 3:51 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Essential! I have a large (RefMAN) database and a huge collection of matching PDFs which I would like to have combined in Mendeley

• Paul commented  ·  June 25, 2011 12:58 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  I want this too.

• Julian commented  ·  March 10, 2011 6:12 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  I wish I had more votes... I would put a couple here...