In fairness, though, you do have a point. The two systems store reference data in the document, in a common format. To get them playing nicely with one another will require the ability to migrate an item in reverse, from the document to the (alien) database, so that it can be handled there in the same way as the "native" items. That hasn't been hooked up yet, so it's not really meant to work. There will surely be bugs to fix when that stage is reached, though.
Just that I didnt know otherwise. Quirks like this - one must know to make informed choices. Just that not knowing has costed me fair of time to strip the whole word add on clean.
In fact too much time with all things combined for a smooth bibliographic management system(s).
In recent times, maybe because my databases have grown substantially, I have lost a lot of time and productivity sorting all the related odds and ends.
I suppose I am an extreme user but it is difficult to whittle down my databases systematically as I am running into ram issues - so far with Mendeley - but will have to see when I managed to transfer my entire library over to Zotero.
For Mendeley, I discovered the upper limit is 1.5GB Ram in my Windows Task Manager. Then the whole application crashes. I have Dell 1747, 8GB Ram memory - it seems it is not enough to crunch through the library (35,000 - 40,000 database, partly due to uncontrollable duplicates) in its entirety. (Though this might be relevant to group libraries - because I wonder what system they use to power potentially similar size databases.)
Hence why I want to transfer to Zotero (among other synchronisation "buggy" matters, or actual bugs from Mendeley recent versions and their snail pace response to support - at least a week's interval, if not more - and that's for a premium individual account).
I don't know if it is overkill but I have ordered an Alienware that to go up to 32GB ram with hope that Zotero/ Mendeley will process the databases nicely along... please don't let me know otherwise as the gizmos are on their way!!!
I just thought for the record, because I have searched extensively myself and found limited information that is also up to date, that others in similar positions may know and hopefully can avoid some of these "known issues" (for want of better words)... if not of course, share similar/ different experiences
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Just that I didnt know otherwise. Quirks like this - one must know to make informed choices. Just that not knowing has costed me fair of time to strip the whole word add on clean.
In fact too much time with all things combined for a smooth bibliographic management system(s).
In recent times, maybe because my databases have grown substantially, I have lost a lot of time and productivity sorting all the related odds and ends.
I suppose I am an extreme user but it is difficult to whittle down my databases systematically as I am running into ram issues - so far with Mendeley - but will have to see when I managed to transfer my entire library over to Zotero.
For Mendeley, I discovered the upper limit is 1.5GB Ram in my Windows Task Manager. Then the whole application crashes. I have Dell 1747, 8GB Ram memory - it seems it is not enough to crunch through the library (35,000 - 40,000 database, partly due to uncontrollable duplicates) in its entirety. (Though this might be relevant to group libraries - because I wonder what system they use to power potentially similar size databases.)
Hence why I want to transfer to Zotero (among other synchronisation "buggy" matters, or actual bugs from Mendeley recent versions and their snail pace response to support - at least a week's interval, if not more - and that's for a premium individual account).
I don't know if it is overkill but I have ordered an Alienware that to go up to 32GB ram with hope that Zotero/ Mendeley will process the databases nicely along... please don't let me know otherwise as the gizmos are on their way!!!
I just thought for the record, because I have searched extensively myself and found limited information that is also up to date, that others in similar positions may know and hopefully can avoid some of these "known issues" (for want of better words)... if not of course, share similar/ different experiences