Hi all,
My EndNote 5 was installed on my new cpomputer today as old one had crashed and burned.
I have backup of librray and styles etc.
However when I add the correct path under the files directory for Styles it does not offer the few I use and only ciontinues to list the full listing of useless ones for me.
I went into the registry and yes the corrcet path for the styles folder/directory is correct but EndNote will not use that.
Any ideas how to fix this?
What’s the path and are you running Windows or Mac - and what versions?
EndNote 5.- Win Pro 7 (64 bit)- path is C:\Library\My-Styles\
Only has 4 style files that have been edited to match he type of journals I publish in.
EndNote X5 “expects” your custom styles to be in a folder called Styles inside your Documents folder.
If you edit one of the existing styles it creates this folder automatically.
Have you tried renaming your custom folder and putting it in Documents?
Alternatively, you could try browsing to the custom folder from within EndNote and opening one of the styles. If you make some insignificant changes (e.g. add some blurb to the “about this style”) and save, EndNote should create the Styles folder. You can then copy the other styles across.
@batman wrote:
EndNote 5.- Win Pro 7 (64 bit)- path is C:\Library\My-Styles\
For Windows 7 that’s an unusual place to store your styles. You might move the My-Styles folder into My Documents instead and change the path.
Thanks all for the multiple suggestions.
I never - ever use the MS defaults for any program “My Documents” since that can be buried under multiple layers of stuff that is not relevant to my work flow. Frequently data files are on a different hard drive (NOT C:\ OS) so to facilitate disaster recovery if there is a system crash no data is lost.
I was able to solve the issue by doing a search for all styles and deleting everything but the few I use from he default folder.
What my initial question was why EN5 under Win7 did not respond as it always has under WIN XP Pro.
In other words when the file location selection was made under the settings tab it would then use custom location settings, but appears not to do so under Win 7 Pro.