Tutorials: Setting up Mendeley on Mac for Google Drive syncing

This video describes why and how to transfer the Mendeley database and Pdf articles from the Mendeley folder inside your favorite Cloud folder (here, Google Drive, for the example).

Prerequisite:

This tutorial requires a free software called MacDropAny, available at the following address: http://www.zibity.com/macdropany.html

Summary of the steps:

  • Close Mendeley
  • Go to your User's folder and make sure the Library folder is visible. If not, right-click, Show View Options and check Show Library Folder
  • Install MacDropAny
  • Open MacDropAny and Choose the following folder in step 1: /Users/YOUR-USER-NAME/Library/Application Support/Mendeley Desktop/
  • Choose your Cloud software in step 2: either Dropbox, OneDrive or Google Drive
  • Click Sync (and quit MacDropAny)
  • Open Mendeley
  • In the menu, go to Mendeley Desktop/Preferences/File Organizer
  • Tick the "Organize my files" checkbox
  • Choose the following directory to copy files to: /PATH-TO-CLOUD/Mendeley Desktop/Downloaded/. (If this folder does not exist, create it first).
  • That's all, folks!

  • Tutorials: Setting up Zotero on Mac (or Windows) for Google Drive syncing

    This video describes why and how to transfer the Zotero database and Pdf articles from the Zotero folder inside your favorite Cloud folder (here, Google Drive, for the example).

    Tutorials: Manual Setup of your library's database and folders

    This tutorial describes how to set up manually the library you want to connect to ZotEZ². With ZotEZ², you have the possibility to force the app to go to one specific folder on your Cloud.

    This means that you can have multiple library on one cloud (let's say Dropbox), and still be able to choose which one will be synchronized with ZotEZ²!

    It also means that you can have your database file (.sqlite) in one place, and your library folder in another place!

    Finally, it implies that you can use attachments rather than direct storage folder linking of the PDFs.