Open Finder and navigate to your Home folder (Finder: Go to > Home.

Another solution would be to save the library in its own folder in the application folder.

This folder is usually not synced or backed up by any other syncing service. We recommend saving your EndNote library in your Home folder. The location for your library is stated in the Location field. To check where your EndNote library is saved, open your library and choose EndNote: Tools > Library summary. iCloud is per default syncing these folders (and subfolders) and will damage your library over time. Make sure your EndNote library is not saved in the Documents or Desktop folders on your Mac. You can read more about this here, Technical reason to use EndNotes sync functionality and nothing elseĪlways make sure your library file is local to the system’s hard drive, and not on a network drive, or in an iCloud, DropBox, Onedrive-style synchronized folder. If one of these files is simultaneously synced, then EndNote cannot save to it and the library may be corrupted. The technical reason is that EndNote needs to save several files in a specific order. The same applies to both Mac and Windows: Storage location for Endnote libraries

While you can use any of the services to keep a backup copy or a compressed copy of your database file(s), we do not recommend opening and/or using the database from that location. EndNote is a database product that was not designed for compatibility with these kinds of services.

ICloud is a cloud-based file sharing service (like Dropbox, Onedrive, box, etc.). Click here for our webshop, or email us at info (at) ĮndNote and iCloud do not like each other.

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