Attach PDFs to metadata in Mendeley Desktop by drag & drop
Dragging a pdf to a reference already in Mendeley should attach the pdf to that reference, instead of creating a duplicate of the reference. The process of opening the reference and browsing for it, is way too long. As checking if the reference already exist could be complicated (you judge that), just link it to whatever reference we point on when dragging.
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Lani
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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.
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Ulrich Baumann
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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.
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Anonymous
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Not working for me in Chrome. This is a real bummer.
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Anonymous
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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.
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André
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I just tested it (Linux, Mendeley 1.3.1) and it worked. I guess this task should be marked "completed" ?
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Chad Curtis
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I was just testing this on a couple examples: It works in 1.1.2 on OS X. Should this be updated as complete?
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Carl Anderson
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Oh, yes -- I'm glad to see this is planned. :) I look forward to its implementation.
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Anonymous
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Just stumbled upon this. It's really stupid that this is not incorporated.
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Anonymous
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This could be good, but I don't want to accidently attach PDF's to a reference when I drag into Mendeley
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Jason Luoma
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This would be really useful to me too! I hope this get implemented
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Jason Luoma
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This would be really useful to me too.
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Nicolet Theunissen
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Essential! I have a large (RefMAN) database and a huge collection of matching PDFs which I would like to have combined in Mendeley
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Paul
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I want this too.
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Julian
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I wish I had more votes... I would put a couple here...
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Liguo Kong commented
this is the most important feature to be implemented.
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Gaston
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I confirm, it is still not working properly! Sometimes the drag and drop over an existing reference works fine, sometimes it just creates a duplicated reference. Well, this function still needs some improvements.
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Jill
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I tried dragging and dropping into a reference in the library pane (not the file field in the details pane) and it worked.
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David
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Any further updates from Mendeley on this? When I drag the pdf onto an existing ref, it just creates a new ref instead of attaching the pdf contrary to what the article above states.
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harrison
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When I try to drag-and-drop a .pdf file onto an existing reference, it just creates a new citation with just the .pdf file rather than linking the .pdf file to the existing citation. This seems to contradict the Mendeley statement above about how the program already "should attach the pdf to that reference, instead of creating a duplicate of the reference." Am I reading this right? If there is a way to link a pdf file to an existing reference please do tell!
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Rosina Lippi commented
I am very impressed with the automatic retrieval of the citation from pdfs that have doi numbers. The biggest limitation, as everybody here has said, is the inability to easily attached pdfs to entries that are already in the bibl. One issue on this, though: I have dozens of newspaper articles, and I wouldn't want the automatic feed feature to override the details and notes I've made to the entry before attaching the pdf.
