Transfering linked pdf's of references registered in Mendeley to Zotero - how to?

stevencer

Hi,

I want to transfer linked pdf's registered in a private group in Mendeley (see print screen) to a new group in Zotero, but I don't no how to do this without losing the link between the reference and the pdf. The collection consists of 4204 references with a pdf link in total of about 16,4 GB.
So I want to know if there is a proper way before I order a storage plan.

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Thanks in advance for the help!

poettli

According to https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/mendeley_import#known_issues

It’s not possible to directly import group libraries. To import items in group libraries, copy the group items to a collection in your Mendeley library before importing. You can then create a Zotero group and drag imported collections or items to that group.

stevencer

Thanks for your feedback, but transfering the references is not the problem I am dealing with, it's the linked pdf that is not transfered when exporting them. How can I handle this without losing the link with the reference?

dstillman

Exporting them how? Zotero has a built-in Mendeley importer — documented on the page linked above — but it doesn't support Mendeley groups directly.

If you're talking about exporting to some file format instead, 1) you'd have to say exactly what you're doing, 2) that's going to be a less-complete transfer, and 3) you'd have to share an example record from the file. But we recommend you instead do what is quoted above.