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• DetlevCM commented  ·  May 21, 2012 06:44  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  I just thought I shall point something out for all people here, not sure if it has been mentioned already: If you download Mendeley, you can extract the executable with 7-zip and it runs just like a Portable Application. The One thing it lacks when doing this is proper support for the WordPlugin - or specifically: I could not get it to work doing that, but otherwise it works perfectly fine.

• Sophie Lieberman commented  ·  April 23, 2012 08:12  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  All that talk about the "mendeley community" just serves to drive up user numbers. Nobody here really cares about what the community wants. Running mendeley from a USB stick does not square with selling online space.

• jack pendrose commented  ·  March 26, 2012 00:15  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  I can make it portable by using any portable app builder. it works fine. It can work offline or online. the pdf files are stored in the usb drive or any directory where the portable app resides. No problems if I move the portable app, its still works. I am enjoying this portable app i made.

• Caroline Sigouin commented  ·  March 11, 2012 12:24  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Mendeley's own cloud storage is indeed not very attractive, and there is still places in the world where internet connexion (or high speed one) is not available!

• Carl Anderson commented  ·  February 15, 2012 06:33  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  I'm increasingly forced to wonder if, in some senses, this issue has languished so long without resolution that it in some senses (but only some!) will cease to matter as people move away from toting USB drives around and towards cloud storage. On the other hand, Mendeley's own cloud storage options are fairly unattractive, and the problems for academics who are forced to work through ham-fistedly locked-down computers at their institutions (if not at home!) remains one which, perhaps for the moment, can only be addressed by running an app off a portable USB drive. (In this respect, I am intrigued by the model of the Scrivener application, which at the moment needs to be installed on a computer in the regular way, but can then be copied to a USB drive and run from that USB drive on any other computer of the same OS. That gets around the problem of institutional computers that have been practically bricked by institutional IT divisions.) But I'm starting to see the "permissions" problem as something perhaps more acute than the actual storage problem .... Technology can, in theory, solve storage issues -- whether or not Mendeley desktop gives users the flexibility to take advantage of those solutions in a rational way. But the locked-down computer thing is, unfortunately, human interference -- for which we can seek workarounds, but hardly solutions.

• Midas commented  ·  February 15, 2012 06:13  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  I had to abandon lurk mode to say this: the absence of a portable version is a grave error of the Mendeley development team. Nowadays it is a rather essential feature, when computing environments are so diverse and volatile, when interoperability, platform independence and resistance to application lock-in is such a present concern for the majority of users. This feature has been discussed now for over 4 years and many promises have been made that have yet to be fulfilled. I regard this as utter failure to grasp the needs of the Mendeley community. How would one trust this corporation with our hard earned research nuggets, when it turns a deaf ear to such a basic request?

  [ An equivalent statement has been posted to support: http://support.mendeley.com/customer/portal/questions/186515-portable-version?new=186515 ]

• Amir commented  ·  January 30, 2012 21:10  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Everyone use DROPBOX for the Mendeley Bib...this feature is not needed then!!!

• Marcelo Barroso commented  ·  December 22, 2011 03:44  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  @DetlevCM
  The main problem for graduate students trying to use Mendeley on university computers is two fold: it's not always possible to work on the same computer; they are all shared, most of the times we use the first one available, that's why portable apps are so useful. Moreover, the computers are blocked, both to install new softwares and for portable softwares to save configuration information (like login and password for accessing our Mendeley account).

  I tried to use @Alessandro Carrega's idea and it works. Just unpacked Mendeley desktop files (from the setup file, downloaded from Mendeley's website) using an unzip application, and stored all them in a folder in my pen-drive. Then, configured to download the pdf files to another folder (Options / File organizer). It works well for several Mendeley's features: reading and anotating papers, sychronizing, adding references etc.

  There are two problems with using like this: both Citation view/copy and Word integration features don't work. And when I turned on the computer again today (i tried the first time yesterday), it had lost my configuration information, so I had to log in again, set up the File organizer again and download all pdf files again.

  It seems then that a Portable version of Mendeley is close to be available, for the core of the software is working well. There seems to be minor issues to solve, like: save the configuration information at the pen-drive too, not Windows users configuration folders.

  Best regards. Marcelo.

• Alessandro Carrega commented  ·  December 17, 2011 21:45  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  It could be a good improvements. For now, I use Mendeley Desktop just as portable extracting from the exe with 7Zip (or others). It works.

• DetlevCM commented  ·  November 06, 2011 05:26  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Well, only once. Yes, the first time you add a lot of PDFs it takes a little while, but all notes etc. are stored separately.

  Or do you mean moving between computers that you do not have a permanent account on?
  On any computer that you have a permanent account on, and can store data on, your "download time problem" will only be valid once at the start.

• Ammar commented  ·  November 06, 2011 04:33  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  @DetlevCM
  Sync ability is good, but it will take a long time, especially if u are syncing the pdf files as well. Nothing beats having the entire library available offline on a usb stick.

• DetlevCM commented  ·  November 06, 2011 04:25  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  @Ammar
  If you are just moving between computers, you can use the synchronize function to keep things in synch.

• Ammar commented  ·  November 06, 2011 01:20  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Release a potable version please. It would be very helpful when moving between computers.

• Maks Fomich commented  ·  October 24, 2011 14:14  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  do it please

• Alex Liu commented  ·  October 15, 2011 19:34  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  that's important for PhD students who have to work on different computers
  please

• Alex Liu commented  ·  October 15, 2011 19:34  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  that's important for PhD students who have to work on different computers
  please

• Alex Liu commented  ·  October 15, 2011 19:34  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  that's important for PhD students who have to work on different computers
  please

• Patrick commented  ·  October 03, 2011 02:31  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  This is really important for PhD students and faculty who work in a university that has obsolete IT control.
  Pleaaaase?

• kevin commented  ·  September 27, 2011 02:31  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  please please please. PhD students need this.

• Stephen Emechete commented  ·  September 20, 2011 04:07  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  There are publications related to my research work titled "using contact angle to find the surface free energy of HIV infested blood" that i would like to have access to at home on my lap top that do not have internet assess