In the meantime, quickly open up Mendely and update the preferences as we did in step 1 above. If you're online, Dropbox on mac-2 will immediately start downloading all the new stuff you previously added to it (via mac-1). In the meantime, you can try launching Mendeley and checking that everything works at it should. ĭropbox will start cloud-syncing the new folder we added. Support>cp -r Mendeley\ Desktop/ Support>mv Mendeley\ Desktop/ Support>ln -s ~/Dropbox/Mendeley/db/Mendeley\ Desktop. This way the DB and preferences can be shared across computers. Now open up the terminal and symlink the ~/Library/Application Support/Mendeley Desktop folder to the db folder just created in Dropbox. Add Mendeley database to DropBox on mac-1Ĭlose Mendeley Desktop on mac-1. Wait till that's finished before moving on to step 2.Ģ. After clicking on 'apply' Mendeley will move your existing library (if you have one) into the new folder. Now launch Mendeley Desktop and in the preferences panel set the pdf-files location to the pdf folder you just created. Within that, create two new folders, pdf and db. On Mac-1, create a Mendeley folder in your Dropbox. I know, this is a big limitation, but since Mendeley indexes pdf files using their full path that's the only way for things to be wired up correctly (otherwise on one of the two macs the path of the pdf files will be broken). Also, the method requires that you are using the same username on both macs.
We'll call one of the two machines mac-1, and the other one mac-2. This recipe assumes that you have two macs and both Dropbox and Mendeley installed on both of them.
Warning: since with this method the preferences and database are shared across computers, you must make sure you don't use Mendeley at the same time on both computers as that could lead to some conflict! Finally, point Mendeley to that Dropbox folder and let it do the rest for us (e.g. The basic idea: keep all of your pdf files in the cloud using a Dropbox folder also, keep the Mendeley database and preferences in the cloud, so that they are shared across computers. So here's a simple method for using a cloud service like Dropbox to sync your entire pdf library without having to pay a cent.
However unless you pay for a fee you will be able to synchronise only up to 1 gig of data through it, which is probably not enough for some people. Since your references are synchronised via the online service, you can run Mendeley on more than one computer/device. Mendeley is a pdf and reference manager software that has a number of cool features: online/offline support, tools for creating public groups (=collections of references), and last but not least, it's fast and easy to use.
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