I have all the PDF documents for my reference entries saved and organised by Mendeley in a library folder, sorted by author, year etc. using only Mendeley's own sorting system.
For some reason, most of my entries in my Mendeley app 'lost' their file a while ago. I'm not sure if this was because I installed it on a new laptop (I did back-up and sync everything correctly) or if that's related to issues with the latest update I have read about, e.g. here: http://support.mendeley.com/customer/portal/questions/17159462-lost-downloaded-pdf-files
The files are also gone from my Web library and from my Mendeley app on my old laptop.
In any case: I still have all the files on my computer in a backup folder and they are still sorted the way Mendeley sorts them. My question is: Is there a way to make Mendeley realise that all these files are there and add them back to their entries in Mendeley?
I have tried simply copying the folders and files into the Mendeley library folder, but Mendeley doesn't seem to recognise that the files are there. If I take a file and drop it into Mendeley, it adds it as a new entry (plus all my annotations are gone). Please tell me there is a way to have this done automatically, such as 'Import files from library' or something … I don't want to re-link over 1.000 documents to their entry manually and re-do all my marking and annotations. :S
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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