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Posted: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 14:13:05 -0500
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Hi,
I have a faculty member experiencing a problem with the new EndNote 8 and
WorldCat. He is using a Mac.
When he tries to import the DirectExport file into an empty EndNote file,
it leaves him with a library showing "0 out of 0" references.
But when he restarts EndNote, the references are in the library. After a
bit of experimentation, he discovered that, if you try to import refs and
then tell EndNote to "Show All" to display the hidden refs, it crashes.
BUT if you import refs, close the library, then reopen the library, the new
refs are there. So the problem is solved - but he really shouldn't have to
close and reopen EndNote (???)
Does anyone know what is happening? Is there a better solution? It seems
terrible that he has to go through this much just to get references into
EndNote. It should be easier and seamless.
Help.
Thanks,
Barbara
At 05:11 PM 1/7/2005, wrote:
>Dear Per,
>
>I would be most grateful if you, and other list-subscribers who were
>disappointed with Endnote 8.0 for the Mac, could give a somewhat more
>detailed account of the features in which you found Endnote 8.0 for the
>Mac lacking or buggy, and on which points you find Bookends better
>(except for its price). I am currently testing both Endnote 8 and
>Bookends 7.7.5 to find a replacement for the discontinued ProCite I
>have always been using, and so far my negative experiences with Endnote
>are mainly limited to the fact that it is indeed rather slow, but then
>Word 2004 isn't the fastest of applications as well, and since one is
>still stuck with this as the only full-fledged word processor under X
>(Nisus etc. being so far not much more than promising), Endnote's
>sluggishness does not bother me too much, as long as the application
>does not crash too often (so far only once in the course of two days of
>testing).
>
>My main doubts concerning Bookends are:
>1) the versatility of its CWYW features, in particular whether it is
>possible to have, like my discipline requires, one format for first
>citation in footnote, a second format for subsequent citations in
>footnotes, and, finally, a third format for full bibliography
>citations.
>2) its future, considering that it will most likely never become an
>industry standard - my current forced migration from ProCite gives me
>enough of a headache not to want to repeat this once again
>3) the availability of import filters and output styles; it might be
>easy to make them yourself, but one of the things one buys software
>packages like this for is saving time - can Endnote Output Styles be
>used in Bookends or easily modified in order to be used?
>
>Thanks a lot for your help,
>
>Best wishes,
>
>
>Gijs Kessler
>International Institute of Social History
>Amsterdam, The Netherlands
>
>On 6 Jan 2005, at 19:25, />
>wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > our experiences with the Mac Version are similar:
> >
> > When a colleague and I tested Endnote 8 for Mac OS X, we were very
> > interested in its Unicode capabilities.
> > Within the first ten minutes, we had about eight error messages (COM
> > exceptions, Service Error: Generic etc.) - I cannot remember when
> > something like this happened last time (I guess it was with Endnote 6).
> >
> > Using the CWYW-feature takes endlessly.
> >
> > Furthermore, to convert databases into Unicode capable databases, you
> > will have to replace some characters to use this new feature. Guess
> > what - the "Any field" entry was pulled from the "change text" menu
> > entry!!!
> >
> > Well - just got Bookends 7.7.5 for Mac OS X.
> >
> > All the best -
> > Per
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Am 6. Jan 2005 um 8:00 Uhr schrieb endnote-interest-digest:
> >
> >> Subject: Some EndNote 8 issues
> >>
> >> Hi:
> >>
> >> I recently alerted EndNote to the following issues with EndNote 8.
> >> Since I have just joined this list and have not seen them mentioned,
> >> they may be worthy of some discussion....
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> - ----
> >>
> >> Problems with the new version 8 that really MUST be fixed in a quick
> >> update!!!! [Mac version, don't know about Windoze].
> >
> >
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