As an alternative, instead of using a shared drive for sharing your Endnote Library with others, you can use the Endnote Online companion to your desktop Endnote for collaboration. You can save the backup copy to your personal drive or, as a Read Only copy, to a shared drive for your collaborators’ use (but not for their adding/removing the content). If you want to save a Library to a network drive for better security you can save a backup copy either as a Compressed Library as explained above or by using the Endnote File>Save a Copy feature. On a PC you may consider This PC>Documents for saving an Endnote Library. There is a very high chance of getting a pop-up Damaged Library message at some point if the Library is saved to any drive other than your local drive, i.e. It is important to know that saving an Endnote Library to any network drive does not work well.
Endnote library (.enl), associated data folder (.Data) and the compressed zip file of both (.enlx) You do have the option of setting the library properties as Read-Only in Windows (or Locked on a Mac), this will allow multiple people to open the library at the same time, but nobody will be able to add or edit references when the library is opened with Read-Only access. From there, the compressed zip file can be moved, copied, and shared. EndNote is not a network program in that only one user can open a library and add and edit records at a time. Text transaction is on 'No transaction.'. In Import Options, choose EndNote Library.
Browse to the library you want to import. Data folders should never be moved or copied without first compressing them into a. Open the EndNote Library into which you want to import the references. Even if no PDFs or images are available, the Data folder will still be there however a Data folder should never be deleted.
The Library contains the records and the Data folder is intended for PDFs of the full text associated with the Endnote Library records, as well as anything inserted into the Image field of a reference. enpl file, which combines both the library and the data file into one.) (NOTE: On Mac computers there is also an option to save your Library as a. enl after its name, and its associated Data folder, with the extension. In the desktop version of EndNote, a Library is saved with the extension. Saving an Endnote Library is one of the issues that requires special attention from the Endnote user. Many MSK staff favor Endnote as their citation management software.