I have been an EndNote user over many versions and have amassed a large library of references and associated PDFs. Over the years, I have taken the time to create useful names for my PDFs that include authors, date and abbreviated title and abbreviated journal name. I could drag and drop them onto the references in my EndNote library and the file name was retained. I have a naming convention that I like and with a library of several thousand publications, don’t want to change.
Then I upgraded to EndNote X7.
I like some aspects of the new interface but I do not like the way that the PDF subfolders are now meaningless numbers rather than names related to the PDF. I can get used to that I guess but what I really, really don’t like is that I have just discovered that the PDF names that I take the trouble to create are truncated when I import (usually drag & drop) the PDFs into EndNote, despite the fact that the PDF preferences are set to “Don’t Rename”. All the PDF names that existed in my library when I upgraded to X7 still have the names I created so there is no restriction to file name length. Am I doing something wrong? Can I stop them being truncated? I realise there is an automatic naming function but that will not generate the abbreviated formats that I like to use.
Grateful for any suggestions to fix or work around this issue.