This is ridiculous. Between this topic and "Allow file storage on any server" there are 2546 votes, which would make it number 3 on the list and yet there's no response at all. Clearly people want to use dropbox and/or sugarsync with this product but they clearly refuse to do that. I understand they plan on making money on storage, but if you already pay for cloud storage (multipurpose and cheaper) why pay for expensive pdf-only storage? Maybe have two paid versions, a monthly subscription-based that doesn't allow relative paths and a one-time paid version that does, and a free version that has neither. I would gladly pay a one-time fee to be able to use this on multiple machines. I will gladly pay someone else if Mendeley doesn't care about what their user base wants.

This topic + PDFs should be attached with paths relative to a user-configurable base path = 3150 votes (#3 on the list), yet no status at all, not even "under review". We get responses like, "Hopefully we will be able to accommodate people who have to or want to store content elsewhere in future, though I do not know quite how that will work yet." and "No updates on this at the moment I'm afraid." from 4 months ago. If only Mendeley would hire programmers with internet-knowledge. Oh wait, I see "create an api so I can list my recent reading on my webpage" with a whopping 11 votes has the status of "started". <sarcasm off>

Seriously, I like Mendeley a lot. I will PAY MONEY for a license to use it with my own storage and recommend it to my colleagues. Right now I will do neither. I will NOT pay $10 a month for 15GB when I already pay for cloud storage that is multi-purpose. Mendeley has given no indication that they care at all about the 3150 votes that have gone into this feature request. They seem to be stubbornly maintaining their business plan of selling storage subscriptions at the cost of sacrificing the good will of their user base (probably primarily academics, with limited budgets) who appreciate the overall quality of the product compared to alternatives (although boolean search functions and smart groups seem like a no brainer).