How to recover a corrupted EndNote library-gctid220360

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How to recover a corrupted EndNote library

If your EndNote library is corrupted, do not worry, you are not alone.
If you try to use the Tool>Recover Library... option and still EndNote says that 0 references are recovered, do not worry. According to our experience, it simply do not work.

So how to recover a corrupted EndNote library?

Simply follow these steps.

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• Open the directory where the EndNote library is located. e.g. H:Librarymy_precious.enl
  
• In the same directory you will see the Data directory. e.g. H:Librarymy_precious.Data

This is where all the data (e.g. PDF files) are stored.

• Simply rename the *.Data directory to some other name. Or copy it to another location as a backup.
• Now double click and open the EndNode library, my_precious.enl
• You'll see that your corrupted library is opened with all the references*.
• Also you will see that there is new directory created by EndNote with the same name my_precious.Data
  
• Close the library
• Go to the location where you backup the original data directory at Step 3.
• Copy the PDF directory you will find inside to the newly created data directory
• Try to open the library again.
• Usually this should work. But in case if you fail, repeat the steps from 3 with the following difference.

This time before you copy the PDF directory from the orginal (backup) data directory, remove the latest entry.
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The above method is given only as help and the author claim NO responsibility to any failure or damage caused by this method. It is always a best practice to regularly backup your library to avoid trouble.

*You might lose the groups that you have created but I couldn't find a better way to preserve the groups (meta-data) too. If you know please comment below.

EDIT: You need to copy misc.frm, misc.MYD, and misc.MYI from the original rdb folder to the new one to restore Groups you already had.