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| kb:mendeley_import [2018/11/19 19:56] – [Known Issues] dstillman | kb:mendeley_import [2018/11/20 02:13] – [Preserving Mendeley Annotations and Highlights] dstillman |
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| As [[#known_issues|noted above]], Mendeley stores PDF annotations and highlights in its own database rather than in the PDF itself where they would be accessible to other PDF readers, and while Zotero will extract annotations to child notes with links back to the PDF, embedded annotations and highlights will not be imported. | As [[#known_issues|noted above]], Mendeley stores PDF annotations and highlights in its own database rather than in the PDF itself where they would be accessible to other PDF readers, and while Zotero will extract annotations to child notes with links back to the PDF, embedded annotations and highlights will not be imported. |
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| To use the third-party Menextract2pdf script to save annotations and highlights back to all of the PDFs in your library before importing into Zotero, follow these steps: | To use the third-party [[https://github.com/cycomanic/Menextract2pdf|menextract2pdf]] script to save annotations and highlights back to all of the PDFs in your library before importing into Zotero, follow these steps: |
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| ==== macOS or Linux ==== | ==== macOS or Linux ==== |
| - Close Mendeley | - Close Mendeley |
| - Make a backup of your [[https://service.elsevier.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/22098/kw/database/supporthub/mendeley/|Mendeley data directory]], including the ''Downloaded'' folder that holds your PDF files (and other locations on your computer where you have PDF files you wish to save Mendeley annotations to) | - Make a backup of your [[https://service.elsevier.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/22098/kw/database/supporthub/mendeley/|Mendeley data directory]], including the ''Downloaded'' folder that holds your PDF files (and other locations on your computer where you have PDF files you wish to save Mendeley annotations to) |
| - Download and unzip the Mextract2pdf script from [[https://github.com/bwiernik/Menextract2pdf/archive/master.zip|here]] | - Download and unzip the menextract2pdf script from [[https://github.com/cycomanic/Menextract2pdf/archive/master.zip|here]] |
| - Open Terminal, navigate to the unzipped Mextract2pdf folder, and run the following command (filling in the correct file paths): | - Open Terminal, navigate to the unzipped Menextract2pdf folder, and run the following command (filling in the correct file paths): |
| * <code>menextract2pdf_overwrite.sh "/Path/To/Mendeley/Data Folder/" "/Path/To/Mendeley/PDF/Folder/"</code> | * <code>menextract2pdf_overwrite.sh "/Path/To/Mendeley/Data Folder/" "/Path/To/Mendeley/PDF/Folder/"</code> |
| - For example, on macOS, if you have your Mendeley database in the [[https://service.elsevier.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/22098/kw/database/supporthub/mendeley/|default location]] and your PDFs stored in Mendeley's "Downloaded" folder, you would enter: | - For example, on macOS, if you have your Mendeley database in the [[https://service.elsevier.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/22098/kw/database/supporthub/mendeley/|default location]] and your PDFs stored in Mendeley's "Downloaded" folder, you would enter: |
| - Close Mendeley | - Close Mendeley |
| - Make a backup of your [[https://service.elsevier.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/22098/kw/database/supporthub/mendeley/|Mendeley data directory]], including the ''Downloaded'' folder that holds your PDF files (and other locations on your computer where you have PDF files you wish to save Mendeley annotations to) | - Make a backup of your [[https://service.elsevier.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/22098/kw/database/supporthub/mendeley/|Mendeley data directory]], including the ''Downloaded'' folder that holds your PDF files (and other locations on your computer where you have PDF files you wish to save Mendeley annotations to) |
| - Download and unzip the Mextract2pdf script from [[https://github.com/bwiernik/Menextract2pdf/archive/master.zip|here]] | - Download and unzip the menextract2pdf script from [[https://github.com/cycomanic/Menextract2pdf/archive/master.zip|here]] |
| - Open Command Prompt, navigate to the unzipped Mextract2pdf folder, and run the following command (filling in the correct file paths): | - Open Command Prompt, navigate to the unzipped Menextract2pdf folder, and run the following command (filling in the correct file paths): |
| * <code>menextract2pdf_overwrite.bat "C:\Path\To\Mendeley\Data Folder\" "C:\Path\To\Mendeley\PDF\Folder\"</code> | * <code>menextract2pdf_overwrite.bat "C:\Path\To\Mendeley\Data Folder\" "C:\Path\To\Mendeley\PDF\Folder\"</code> |
| - For example, if you have your Mendeley database in the [[https://service.elsevier.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/22098/kw/database/supporthub/mendeley/|default location]] and your PDFs stored in Mendeley's "Downloaded" folder, you would enter: | - For example, if you have your Mendeley database in the [[https://service.elsevier.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/22098/kw/database/supporthub/mendeley/|default location]] and your PDFs stored in Mendeley's "Downloaded" folder, you would enter: |
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