I agree, like Christina, but I also feel the rightness of
David's
suggestion about regarding an EndNote database as valuable
as any
database, where proper recovery tools are often a part of
the database
software.
I have to try Peter's solution, because I cannot judge this
possibility
from reading what he writes. I'll report about my
experiences.
Oriolus
2007/8/28, David.Harvey <David.Harvey>:
At 4:38 PM -0400 24/8/07, beadcraft gmail.com[beadcraftgmail.com]
wrote:
>Are there any other EndNote users who share my
frustration that this
>program doesn't have some way of indicating when an
entry has been
>modified? There have been a number of times when I have
had a computer
>crash and gone to a backup version of my file, or when I
have had
>several versions of my file and needed to see which
entries had been
>recently modified, and there's no way of doing that. I
know I can sort
>by record number, so I can tell new entries from earlier
ones, but
>every other database I've worked with has a way of
seeing when an entry
>has been modified, as well as when it was first made.
>
>Does anyone else care about this? If so, I hope that you
will send
>suggestions for this the on the Research Soft website. I
don't want
>them to think that this is something no one else thinks
is important.
>I've been maintaining a bibliography for a long time,
and it would make
>my life much easier if this change were made.
>
>Patricia Gross
Hear, hear. The only I know to recover from a crash is to
have a
checkpoint facility and transaction log, which enables
rollforward from
a checkpoint (and also rollback, aka undo). For a personal
database you
might not want to commit the resources to such a solution
but just
having date entered/date modified fields would indeed make
database
management a lot easier.
--
David Harvey
60 Gipps Street
Drummoyne NSW 2047
Australia
Tel: 61-2-9719-9170
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