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From: AES on 17 Mar 2010 11:45
Suppose you have a PDF copy of Reprint X by Author Y in, say, a
"Reprints" folder (where you keep your collection of reprints) and you
add a link to this PDF to the EndNote citation for that particular
reprint by dragging the reprint over the "Link to PDF" field in the
EndNote citation.

You may think, "Hey, I've created a convenient link to my copy of
Reprint X, right there in the citation, so this is one way I can get to
it conveniently and directly from EndNote".

But this isn't the case: What EndNote has done (and I'm sure this will
be described somewhere in the fine print in the EndNote documentation)
is to make a full copy of that PDF reprint, and stick it off in an
EndNote Library, inside it's own separate folder.

So, now you have _two_ separate copies of that document, _identically
named_, on your HD. That's double he HD space, which may be a trivial
problem.

But, if you navigate along one Finder track to your original copy (and
you know where it is, since you put it there) and do some editing, and
then later -- maybe much later -- navigate through the EndNote link to
its copy and do some editing, you now have two identically named files
that are out of sync, which is not a trivial problem.

And, if you inadvertently manage to get both copies open at once, maybe
along with a lot of other documents, and in navigating through the
clutter access one, then the other, at some point Acrobat is very likely
to barf and Quit.

This is cataloging dumbness, at the same level as the dumbness of the
way iTunes wants to catalog and relocate -- and also rename -- all your
audio files.
From: Jamie Kahn Genet on 18 Mar 2010 05:29
AES <siegman(a)stanford.edu> wrote:

> Suppose you have a PDF copy of Reprint X by Author Y in, say, a
> "Reprints" folder (where you keep your collection of reprints) and you
> add a link to this PDF to the EndNote citation for that particular
> reprint by dragging the reprint over the "Link to PDF" field in the
> EndNote citation.
>
> You may think, "Hey, I've created a convenient link to my copy of
> Reprint X, right there in the citation, so this is one way I can get to
> it conveniently and directly from EndNote".
>
> But this isn't the case: What EndNote has done (and I'm sure this will
> be described somewhere in the fine print in the EndNote documentation)
> is to make a full copy of that PDF reprint, and stick it off in an
> EndNote Library, inside it's own separate folder.
>
> So, now you have _two_ separate copies of that document, _identically
> named_, on your HD. That's double he HD space, which may be a trivial
> problem.
>
> But, if you navigate along one Finder track to your original copy (and
> you know where it is, since you put it there) and do some editing, and
> then later -- maybe much later -- navigate through the EndNote link to
> its copy and do some editing, you now have two identically named files
> that are out of sync, which is not a trivial problem.
>
> And, if you inadvertently manage to get both copies open at once, maybe
> along with a lot of other documents, and in navigating through the
> clutter access one, then the other, at some point Acrobat is very likely
> to barf and Quit.
>
> This is cataloging dumbness, at the same level as the dumbness of the
> way iTunes wants to catalog and relocate -- and also rename -- all your
> audio files.

Which you can also tell it not to and are explicity asked if you want
iTunes to do so the very first time you run it. So no, not the same at
all.
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