Importing an Endote Libary with PDF Links on a macbook

njesse · October 13, 2009

I can import the library, but I lose the links. If someone could give me detailed instructions I would appreciate it. I read an entry about attaching the pdf library to the start up disk, but I'm not sure where to find the start up disk.

HELP!

Tjowens · October 14, 2009

Are you saying you read http://www.zotero.org/support/kb/importing_records_from_endnote ?

You need to find the location of those files and do a find and replace in the RIS file to add that information so that Zotero knows where to look for the files.

noksagt · October 14, 2009

Also:
http://www.zotero.org/support/kb/exporting_from_endnote_with_pdfs

valdesan · November 29, 2009

everybody refers to this KB, can somebody give me an explanation as to what I need to do here?
sed -e 's/internal-pdf:\/\/.*\//file:\/\/[escaped-path-to-pdfs]\//g' [input.ris] > [output.ris]

I get the idea, and replace what I think needs to be replaced, the stuff in [] but I get
sed: 1: "s/internal-pdf:\/\/.*\/ ...": bad flag in substitute command: 'R'

I am sureI am doing something wrong that is extremely simple.

noksagt · November 30, 2009

.... bad flag in substitute command: 'R'I am sureI am doing something wrong that is extremely simple.

My guess, given your error, is that you aren't escaping your path to the pdfs. If your true path is '/Users/Test', you need to use '\/Users\/Test'. If I'm mistaken, please include the exact command you are trying & also the exact error message.