I bought an iPad in order to use Mendeley and read my articles while doing fieldwork, but it has proven frustrating. I'm 30 pages into one particular document and have made extensive annotations. Several times, I noticed a small triangular warning icon on the lower-righthand side of the iPad screen, saying something about how sync was having problems and the icon would remain there until the problem is resolved. Occasionally it would go away.
Yesterday, Mendeley for iPad started freezing about 30 seconds after every time I opened that particular file. I got worried that my data hadn't synced with the Desktop version so I opened the file on Mendeley Desktop (running on a new MacBook Air). Mendeley Desktop works fine when I open other files, but this particular file does 3 weird things: 1) When I open it, every annotation I made on my iPad appears upwards of 15 times in the list of annotations under Notes; 2) the time it takes for the program to respond to commands gets very long, so clearly the program is struggling with something; 3) Attempts to add new notes are off - my typing registers only if I type very slowly (otherwise it skips recording some letters); and 4) When I try to close that particular document inside Mendeley Desktop, the whole application freezes and won't recover, resulting in needing to force quit.
Help! I have a ton of important notes attached to this document. And more broadly, if adding notes/annotations to iPad versions of files corrupts them, then my system is useless.
Thanks in advance for any clues you can give me,
Emily
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