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Author: Martien Brand    Posted: 04/07/2000 15:46:54 GDT
L.S., I have changed the reference types of EndNote 4 to improve the processing of references for the APA-style. Now I would like to install these preferences on an other computer, but I can not find the preference file. Does anybody know where to look. I'm working on a machine with Windows NT. Martien Brand

RE: preferences
Author: Matt Boreland    Posted: 06/07/2000 02:23:20 GDT
Hi Martien, EndNote 4 no longer has an explicit preferences file. All the preferences are stored as user settings in the windows registry. This way each user who logs on the computer can have their own set of user preferences. Whilst useful for multiuser machines , it makes it difficult, as in your case, to migrate those settings. So if you feel comfortable running around in the registry (using regedit) then it can be done (i think), but it's not documented in the EN manual how to do it or exactly where the preference settings are. My guess is that it looks like you can find them in HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/ISI ResearchSoft/Prefs (in Win2000), so if you exported that to an ascii file and imported it into you new machine, it might work. But remember, that the Registry is a good place to delete the wrong thing and render your operating system as dopey or dead, so it best to be sure of what you're doing...maybe ISI can supply the details. Of course you need to be logged on with admistrator priviliges to do it, and the other computer needs to be the same operating system. Not exactly a a solution for the novice. I think I suggested to the EndNote folks a while back that it would be nice to have utility (or a built in EN4 function) to allow exporting of preferences settings without the need for a visit to into the registry, and to be multi-OS, ie allow migration from say Win95/98 to Win2000 . Anyone second that motion? It's not an uncommon task to move to a new computer, and given that the preferences also includes you customised reference type settings, it's essential to have the preferences to keep you references in decypherable order (BTW i still think that the reference types should be part of the database, not the preference settings...anyone second that...?). Well i hope that helps a little. regards matt ===================================== Dr Matt Boreland Toyota Technological Institute Semiconductor Laboratory 2-12-1 Hisakata, Tempaku-ku Nagoya, 468-8511, Japan phone: +81-52-809-1877 fax: +81-52-809-1879 email: ===================================== > -----Original Message----- > From: > Behalf Of Martien Brand > Sent: Tuesday, 4 July 2000 11:47 PM > To: > Subject: preferences > > <SNIP> > I would like to install these preferences on an other computer, but I > can not find the preference file. > > Does anybody know where to look. > > I'm working on a machine with Windows NT. >

RE: preferences
Author: Ingvar Ericson    Posted: 07/07/2000 09:33:14 GDT
>Not exactly a a solution for the novice. I think I suggested to the EndNote >folks a while back that it would be nice to have utility (or a built in EN4 >function) to allow exporting of preferences settings without the need for a >visit to into the registry, and to be multi-OS, ie allow migration from say >Win95/98 to Win2000 . Anyone second that motion? It's not an uncommon task >to move to a new computer, and given that the preferences also includes you >customised reference type settings, it's essential to have the preferences >to keep you references in decypherable order (BTW i still think that the >reference types should be part of the database, not the preference >settings...anyone second that...?). I second at least your first suggestion. Basically users should not have to "mess around" with regedit, a powerful but dangerous program. In fact Microsoft tech support recently told me that they do NOT support problems caused by end users having "messed around" with regedit on their own. So, there's got to be a more user friendly solution. For the benefit of those interested one of our customers called yesterday with a problem he had to transfer his customized reference types from EndNote 3 to EndNote 4. To be on the safe side he had moved his EndNote 3 preferences from the Windows directory to a "safe" place assuming he could put it back after having installed EndNote 4. Didn't work that way! Here's the procedure he will now have to go through according to the help we got from ISI ResearchSoft: EndNote 4 stores its preferences in the Windows Registry instead of the ENP file. However it reads the EndNote 3 preferences file and tries to set itself up with the same preferences. Since EndNote 4 has already been installed he must start by un-installing it, and make certain the EndNote 4 preferences are not in the registry. The preferences would be under HK_CURRENT_USER...Software...ISI ResearchSoft...EndNote...Prefs. Once the customer is certain the EndNote Prefs are not in the Registry, he should make certain his special EndNote.ENP is in the Windows folder and then re install EndNote. The installer should read the EndNote.ENP and set up EndNote 4 with the same preferences. There's got to be a more user friendly way to deal with situations like this. Best regards Ingvar Ericson **************************** ProgramPaketet AB Box 152 SE-382 22 Nybro Phone +46 481 511 23 Fax +46 481 511 21 http://www.programpaketet.se

Preferences
Author: Michael E Smith    Posted: 07/07/2000 14:05:43 GDT
I second Matt Borland's suggestion that we need a better way to transfer preferences among machines and users. Fiddle with the registry for this?? No thanks! This is a case where version 4 took a major step in the wrong direction. Michael E. Smith, Professor Department of Anthropology, SS-263 University at Albany, SUNY 1400 Washington Ave Albany, NY 12222 Home Page: http://www.albany.edu/~mesmith/ tel: 518-442-4709 fax: 518-442-5710

RE: Preferences
Author: Matt Boreland    Posted: 08/07/2000 01:46:24 GDT
If the reference types were part of the EndNote library file, it wouldn't be such a drama. The reference types are the most difficult to re-enter by hand, whereas the others are largely just "tick-a-box" choices (I actually use the defaults for most of them). When you get down to it, the reference types are really more like data than preferences. It'd also make it easier for sending a library to someone else to look at if the reference types were bulit in (also good if you could overwrite the reference types to change them when swapping libraries). I actually think that preferences in the registry is not a bad idea, it just that EN lacks the necessary utilities for moving them around between machines. Matt ===================================== Dr Matt Boreland Toyota Technological Institute Semiconductor Laboratory 2-12-1 Hisakata, Tempaku-ku Nagoya, 468-8511, Japan phone: +81-52-809-1877 fax: +81-52-809-1879 email: ===================================== > -----Original Message----- > From: > Behalf Of Michael E Smith > Sent: Friday, 7 July 2000 10:06 PM > To: > Subject: Preferences > > > > I second Matt Borland's suggestion that we need a better way > to transfer preferences among machines and users. Fiddle > with the registry for this?? No thanks! This is a case where > version 4 took a major step in the wrong direction. > > Michael E. Smith, Professor > Department of Anthropology, SS-263 > University at Albany, SUNY > 1400 Washington Ave > Albany, NY 12222 > Home Page: http://www.albany.edu/~mesmith/ > tel: 518-442-4709 > fax: 518-442-5710 > > >

RE: Preferences
Author: Albert B Collver, III    Posted: 08/07/2000 14:18:50 GDT
Hello, Regarding the Endnotes preferences; while I have not had the need to migrate my settings from one machine to another, I do have a suggestion. MS recently developed a utility called Save My Settings Wizard for MS Office 2000. This utility would save all the user settings and then upload them to a website. A user could then go to another machine and transfer his settings via the Internet. While I am not suggesting the ISI set up a web site to do this, if it is not too difficulty perhaps they could develop a utility that would automatically extract the settings from the registry and then put them on disk. A user could then have Endnotes read the preference file and then put them back in the registry. I am imagine the next thing that would be wanted would be a way to synchronize the settings... Personally, I would rather see a version of Endnotes that ran on a Windows CE, Pocket PC, and Palm OS computer and then synchronize with the main Endnotes program. Albert B. Collver, III

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