I’m updated my MacOS system from Mountain Lion to Sierra after which my endnote 4 would not work, so had to update to Endnote 8. Now my library starts opening but then I get an error message " This library is currently being used by someone else. Try opening it again later" . I have reinstalled endnote multiple times, I’ve “Recover library” multiple time and save under various names and restarted my computer multiple times. Still getting the same message. Only good thing at the moment is that endnote is not crashing anymore. If anyone has any other suggestions, please let me know, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
Updated to X8. Have you tried moving the .enl file AND the .DATA folder to another folder location and try opening it from there? That has fixed it for one of my colleagues. Then we deleted the original and moved it back to the original location so the syncing didn’t get messed up.
I seem to have solved this by copying each of my many Endnote files, then renaming them (keeping the same “.enl” suffix), then opening the renamed file, then saving them as the original file (ie overwriting the original file). Tedious, and I hope it doesn’t keep happening!
Yesterday Endnote worked fine - today I have exactly the same problem. I have used Endote for over 20 years and have about 40,000 refs, so am heavily invested in this program, which has been reliable to date. I write for a living. I have noticed some improvements in Endnote version 8 (which I only recently installed) but this is very disturbing; the inconvenience far exceeds the slight improvement. There must be a bug in the program.
It’s fine if I create a new Endnote file - but I am locked out of all my pre-existing files.
I have been using endnote forever too. I have only once had this problem (and luckily had backups and synced copies). In my case I intermittently lost access to our network drive. At that time, I was told only use the library on local haddrive. I have to be honest, I didn’t like or heed that advice and haven’t had the trouble again. But it is worth looking at where your library lives and thinking about trialing it on the hard drive for a bit?
I assume when you moved/renamed things, you did take the .DATA folder too? That is where the guts of the database reside.
I have renamed the folders that my libaries were saved in and now I seem to have the same problem. Additionally, I work in an online work environment (Citrix) which makes it impossible for me to shut down EndNote (the message won’t go away if you click ‘OK’. How can I solve this problem?
I haven’t changed the name of the libary or the name of the data files, just the name of the folder that was used to store all information regarding my study (which includes the EndNote library).