How to import a library from Sente?
Robert Moorehead
I have a Sente library with lots of PDF attachments that I would like to import into Papers2. How can I do that while retaining the PDF files I have attached to the references?
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Support Staff 32 Posted by matias on 10 Nov, 2011 09:00 PM
I should add, the importing related improvements highlighted above will be made available in the upcoming 2.1 beta 3.
Support Staff 33 Posted by matias on 10 Nov, 2011 09:58 PM
@Luuk: in the upcoming 2.1 beta 3, the file URLs in the bibtex file should also be handled correctly such that you are able to import PDFs from a bibtex file.
Best
Matias
34 Posted by Luuk Houwen on 12 Nov, 2011 12:06 AM
I would love to try it but unfortunately my 30 day trial period ran out before I managed to import my EndNote library successfully.
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Support Staff 35 Posted by charles on 12 Nov, 2011 06:33 PM
Sorry about that. If you are interested, you can also simply reset your library and start from scratch as follows:
(See also http://support.mekentosj.com/kb/papers1/migrating-your-papers1-libr...)
Note that on OS 10.7 Lion, to access your Library folder, you need to use the Go menu in the Finder and press the option key. This will add a 'Library' item to the list, and will give you access to the hidden folder.
This will also reset the trial...
Best wishes,
Charles
Knowledge Base for Papers:
http://support.mekentosj.com/kb
charles closed this discussion on 12 Nov, 2011 06:33 PM.
Luuk Houwen re-opened this discussion on 13 Nov, 2011 04:00 PM
36 Posted by Luuk Houwen on 13 Nov, 2011 04:00 PM
Thanks Charles,
Any idea when the new beta will be out for testing?
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Support Staff 37 Posted by charles on 14 Nov, 2011 12:10 AM
Not 100% sure, we are still working on some crashes, and it might still be a week, though the goal is really to have it tomorrow or Tuesday if all goes right....
charles closed this discussion on 14 Nov, 2011 12:10 AM.
mek re-opened this discussion on 17 Nov, 2011 11:19 AM
Support Staff 38 Posted by mek on 17 Nov, 2011 11:19 AM
Hi Luuk,
We have just released 2.1beta3, you can give it a try by activating the beta version notifications in the general tab of the Papers preferences. We would be curious to hear your experiences.
Best wishes,
Alex
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39 Posted by neil.fisk on 28 Apr, 2012 01:37 PM
This comment was split into a new private discussion: How to import a library from Sente?
I have just upgraded to the latest Papers and would like to import my Sente library. How do I do this? I could not find any examples.
Thanks,
Neil
40 Posted by Luuk Houwen on 27 Mar, 2013 08:18 PM
This comment was split into a new private discussion: How to import a library from Sente?
Well that was 2011 and this is 2013 with a new version of papers which I just tried again. I am afraid things haven't improved. I experted some 600 refs from Sente in BixTex format (unicode) almost all of which had pdf attachments and imported the lot into a brand new database in Papers2. Two problems were immediately apparent:
1. Only a handful of all 600 references had their attachments imported
2 As happened a few ago when I first tried papers, I ended up with more bibliographical entries than I started with. This may be normal (if so please explain why this is happening), but I find it very disconcerting
41 Posted by Ben Stein on 11 May, 2013 05:41 PM
I just migrated to Papers 2 from Sente 6, and using the endnote XML format as an intermediary seems to work great. Papers found all my pdfs and got all of the citation information right, too.
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