Fear not, for the solution has come upon us… I have become enlightened… And I have created an account here just so that I could enlighten other lost souls: lost like I was, before I contacted my tech support sensai located in the mountains of Northern India.
iCloud is to blame for our troubles. iCloud is against us. It saves everything in its cloud and therefore when we attempt to open our library, we encounter a problem. Do NOT fear, for you can take back all that you have.
(1) check your macs system preferences - iCloud - look at the documents tab… is it checked? If so, leave it alone and continue reading.
(2) go into your endnote file in applications… click examples … then open sample library X9… now two icons should appear.
(3) create a new folder in your applications label it “Endnote_miracles”
(4) copy both your .enl file and the matching .data file of your library
(5) paste it into endnote miracles
(6) Run endnote, and go to tools - recover library
(7) select your .enl folder and hit ok.
(8) save the new file ending in Saved as a package (if it asks) in your endnote miracles file. it should now start pairing pdfs. the end is near.
(9) after it is done, open a new library in endnote and select this newly created file ending in “saved”
(10) be free and rejoice.
(11) call tech support if this doesn’t work. they will clear it up but this worked for me.
Even hope can be found in the darkest of places… do not give up hope on your hours of time and work! they will solve it!
Peace be with you friends :-)