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>My EndNote library is about 4000 and growing by about 1000 per year. One
>problem I have is redundant index numbers due to deletions, excision of
>duplications and general "tidying-up".  Consequently my numbering is up
>around 5500.  The only way round this is to construct a new library from
>scratch, but this would have to be done in batches of, say, 100 references
>due to memory limitations. Any ideas out there?


It may not be clear that we never re-use record numbers: if you have entered
100 records and delete 10, the next record number will be 101.  These
numbers are designed to be unique in the library, so no matter how many
books Georges Duby edited in 1988, the program will not ever get confused as
to which one is cited.

Since the numbers are only important for unique identification, we urge you,
our users, not to worry about them.  They don't matter!  If you make new
libraries to "clean up" these numbers, the new libraries will not match the
old papers, which will cause a lot of trouble in the future.

We are thinking about ways to make the record numbers less important, and we
take these difficulties very seriously.

Yours,



Avi Rappoport
Niles & Associates, Inc.