Migrating your Papers1 Library to Papers2

Migrating your Papers1 library the first time you start Papers2:

When Papers2 starts for the first time, and if Papers1 is still installed on your computer, Papers2 will prompt you to import your Papers1 library.

Click on "update" and your entire Papers1 library will be imported into Papers2. This does not affect your library in Papers1, and you can still continue to use Papers1 as you did before.

How to migrate your library if you skipped the migration step in Papers2:

Warning

If you skipped updating your library the first time you started Papers2, you can still migrate your Papers1 library to Papers2. For this, we will need to make sure your Papers2 library will not be reloaded by Papers2 and will be ignored by the program, so that it will startt with a fresh new library. This means you will need to delete your Papers2 library folders. If you have already added PDFs to your Papers2 library, those will be removed by the following steps. Thus, you may need to first make a copy of your current library folder in a different location on your hard drive to be able to add back the PDFs later.

Locate your library

Before removing your library, you should locate your Papers2 library file using the Finder:



Typically, the folder will be at the following path, which will be assumed to be the case in the rest of the instructions: /Users//Documents/Papers2 (or it will be next to your Papers1 library in another location)

This folder also contains the library.papers2 folder, as well as all documents you might have added to Papers2 since installing it and that you may want to copy before the next steps.

Instructions

quit Papers2 if it's running (also make sure the Manuscripts icon is gone in the menu bar, which may require you turn Manuscritps off in the preferences)

throw away the preference file /Users//Library/Preferences/com.mekentosj.papers2.plist

throw away the folder /Users//Documents/Papers2 (or the folder you located above)

throw away the folder /Users//Library/Application Support/Papers2

Start Paper2 again. You should be prompted to import your library from Papers1, which will start after you click 'Update'

值得注意的是这个过程对于Papers1没有任何影响，所以可以保留一段时间，如果确定没用了，再删除即可。