Endnote X2 on Mac and pdf import

binbona
Hello All,

After some coquetting with Zotero I decided to fully switch to it from Endnote X2. I have been using Endnote since the version 5 and all my libraries have survived several conversions as the Endnote was developing. Maybe because of that my files have a long names such as

0941279488ase role in#3CCB8.pdf

Now I follow the steps from this website to change the RIS file so that Zotero will find the pdfs. It all seems to work well, however after import I cannot open any files. The reason seems to be that file name of the pdf is changed from 0941279488ase role in#3CCB8.pdf to 0941279488ase role in. Zotero does seem to discard everything after the sign #.

When I delete the "#" from the file name it is all working well - pdfs are imported and found.

Has anybody had similar problem? Can you please help me to rectify that?

Thanks in advance,
  • noksagt
    Pound signs are valid in filenames, but they're unexpected in URIs [used as fragment identifier (bookmarks/anchors in HTML)].

    You can replace the # with '%23' in your RIS file or you may rename the PDFs.
  • binbona
    Lovely. Thanks a lot, it worked great.

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