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2 total messages Started by Jeroen tenHaaf Wed, 24 Nov 1993 10:17
Re: HELP
#1291
Author: Jeroen tenHaaf
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1993 10:17
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Yesterday I sent to Tom G. a possible solution to his problem, thinking it was
a very specific one. Now more users seem to have comparable problems. Here is
my advise.

>Tom,
>try to export your endnote file (first choose ~Refer Export style for Mac or
>~Refer.Exp style for PC) and re-import it (in a new librry, of course) using
>the Refer/BibIX mode.
>AND From now on make at least daily backups!
>hope it works

I don't know of course if it works, but since I understand it has something to
do with empty records, you now can delete these after exporting by global
editing in your word processor, before you re-import your data as described
above. This is defenitely NOT a solution for the cause of the problem, but the
symptoms may disappear.


+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Jeroen A. Ten Haaf, Information Expert
University Library, University of Limburg
P.O. Box 616
6200 MD Maastricht
the Netherlands
tel.:    <int.>-31 43881764
e-mail:  J.tenHaaf@UB.RuLimburg.NL
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Re: HELP
#1297
Author: TOM_GUMPEL
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1993 12:41
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In article <01H5OXKELKS2000ZEU@RLMVX1.RULIMBURG.NL>, Jeroen tenHaaf <J.tenHaaf@UB.RULIMBURG.NL> writes:
> Yesterday I sent to Tom G. a possible solution to his problem, thinking it was
> a very specific one. Now more users seem to have comparable problems. Here is
> my advise.
>
>>Tom,
>>try to export your endnote file (first choose ~Refer Export style for Mac or
>>~Refer.Exp style for PC) and re-import it (in a new librry, of course) using
>>the Refer/BibIX mode.
>>AND From now on make at least daily backups!
>>hope it works
>
> I don't know of course if it works, but since I understand it has something to
> do with empty records, you now can delete these after exporting by global
> editing in your word processor, before you re-import your data as described
> above. This is defenitely NOT a solution for the cause of the problem, but the
> symptoms may disappear.
>
>
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> Jeroen A. Ten Haaf, Information Expert
> University Library, University of Limburg
> P.O. Box 616
> 6200 MD Maastricht
> the Netherlands
> tel.:    <int.>-31 43881764
> e-mail:  J.tenHaaf@UB.RuLimburg.NL
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
That is a good solution. The way I ended up 'fixing' it was to Select All and
then copy them into another new database. They all copied up until the letter
'P'. Then I went into my database (the trashed one) and pressed 'q' which
brought me to the first reference beginning with 'q'. I used the up arrow until
the program locked. When I entered the program the second time, I jumped to
'q' and the used the up arrow to get to the entry just before the previous
lock (in this case it was the last name 'Paul') then I selected the entire rest
of the database and Copied it to the new database. In this way, I was only
missing 12 references, from 'PAA' to 'PAUl".

That's the way I handled it and everything seems to be ok now. Thanks to
Jeroen for his suggestions!

Let's see what Avi will say when she gets back from her Thanksgiving feast.


Tom
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