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How do I delete all documents from Mendeley web?
I imported my Zotero library into Mendeley and it is a mess. I would like to restart the process by deleting my web directory entirely, then importing my pdfs without having them go through Zotero. In other words, I would like Mendeley only reflect all the actual pdfs I have, rather than all the other references that Zotero contains.
When I tried deleting everything from the desktop, the web immediately resynced.
Can I start from scratch?
Thanks.
Hello,
If you want to delete all your documents and references, you can always do this by selecting ‘All’ documents on your web library. The first 20 documents will be selected; however, you have the option of selecting all the documents existing in your library by clicking on ‘Select all xx documents’ (the link next to the text ‘All 20 documents on this page are selected’).
Once this is done you need to click on ‘Delete Documents’ at the top, to send these documents to the Trash. To delete them definitely from your web library, you must then click on ‘All Deleted Documents’ and then on ‘Empty Trash’.
Finally, you need to sync with Mendeley Desktop to empty your local library.
The steps above will not affect your shared groups as they have their own syncing settings options (you can access these by clicking on a shared group and then ‘Settings’).
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