🚀 go-pugleaf

  I'm even more an EN fan now.  Niles tech support recently pointed me to
a Mac tool to un-clobber an unusable EndNote database:
  ftp.niles.com/pub/mac/utilities/savior
By "unusable" I mean that EN2 required a Forced Quit to recover from
trying to read past a certain entry in the database.  Worked like a charm;
generated a new database with .SAVED appended to its file name.  However,
be warned that this program is the ultimate in transparency: it has no
documentation and no user interface (on the Mac) once the Open dialog box
is finished.

  Other tools exist in this location; anybody know about what they do?


  Now two suggestions if Niles folks are listening.  Comments welcome.

1. When performing a Change Field, my dialog box always pops up with the
Author field.  However, seldom does a user want to change Author entries
in a lot of articles; usually one wants to add a keyword, remove an
extraneous character string from Label, and so on.  The user knows that
Change Field is intrinsically a little dangerous and mistakes may be
require going to a backup version of the database.  My own reaction to
this edgy situation is to concentrate hard on setting up exactly the right
text string.  If I consequently forget to flip from Author down to
Keywords or Label, what a mess!
  The problem is particularly annoying if one is repeating a Change
Field.  Defaulting back to Author when re-doing a Change Field is
nonintuitive.
  Change Field should have no default field, use the user's
previously-selected field, or permit a Preferences choice of the default
field.

2.  The waterfowl article below will come up if you do a Find in Any Field
on "goose"--but also on "swan".  A special Find mode to use Any Subject
Field would help a lot here.  "Subject" would be any field except Author,
Editor, Year, Volume, City, Number of Pages, Pages--you get the idea. 
Those who use these fields in nonstandard ways would undergo no hardship
because Any Field would retain its original functionality.

%0 Journal Article
%A Swan, LW
%D 1970
%T Goose of the Himalayas
%J Natural History
%V 79
%P 68-75
%F from "Birds" 
%K waterfowl
-- 
Ron Larkin (r-larkin@uiuc.edu)
Illinois Natural History Survey, Champaign IL 61820