EndNote 20 uiser here. Database with 6500+ references in it. Have been using it for weeks, sorting records into groups for a Systematic Review. Spent today finishing off the last 186 references. FInished about 45 min ago … then EndNote crashed and reopened again. When it reopened, the last 186 references were back in the unfiled folder and not in my groups. Had a look at the ENL file and it is datastamped last night … so EndNote didn’t save it when it crashed.
Surely I don’t have to refile those 186 records again, spending another 9 hours???
ENL file 12/05/2021 9:27PM
DATA folder 24/04/2021 11:39PM
PDF folder 12/05/2021 7:45PM (but has files saved as recently as 7:26PM tonight)
SDB folder
sdb.eni 13/05/2021 7:52PM ← seems to be the only file that saved tonight?
The enl file is just a pointer and doesn’t contain the database. You can replace it with an empty file. The folders in the .DATA folder contain the files with the database structure, but I suspect your hard work was lost. Have you considered doing searches to assign results to your groups either by drag or drop, or creating smart groups?
I’ve been stumped in a similar manner too. Was working with adding new references to a library consisting of lots of groups in group sets. Closed down for the night, and when I try to open it today I find all my groups and original references just fine, but the entire group set structure is simply gone and I’m left with a long list of ‘unfiled groups’.
Anyone got any idea as to what’s happened with my group sets?