The export formats supported by Mendeley don’t contain folders, various metadata fields (date added, favorite, and others), or PDF annotations.
Elsevier later stated that the change was required by new European privacy regulations - a bizarre claim, given that those regulations are designed to give people control over their data and guarantee data portability, not the opposite - and continued to assert, falsely, that full local export was still possible, while repeatedly dismissing reports of the change as “#fakenews”.ĭirect access to the Mendeley database is the only local way to export the full contents of one’s own research.
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The Mendeley 1.19 release notes claimed that the encryption was for “improved security” on shared machines, yet applications rarely encrypt their local data files, as file protections are generally handled by the operating system with account permissions and full-disk encryption, and anyone using the same operating system account or an admin account can already install a keylogger to capture passwords. Until recently, Mendeley Desktop imported data from Zotero’s own open database, as it had since 2009. Elsevier made this change a few months after Zotero publicly announced work on an importer, despite having long touted the openness of its database format as a guarantee against lock-in and explaining in its documentation that the database could be accessed using standard tools.
Starting in Mendeley Desktop 1.19, Elsevier began encrypting the local Mendeley database, making it unreadable by Zotero and other standard database tools.
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