How does "automatic" sync actually work?
How does "automatic" sync actually work? In other words, when does the automation come into play?
At a minimum, I'm sure Firefox must be open. But do you need to have the Zotero pane open as well in order for the automated sync to kick in?
I work equally at home and at office and often find the most recently added references not have been uploaded to the server from the other computer.
At a minimum, I'm sure Firefox must be open. But do you need to have the Zotero pane open as well in order for the automated sync to kick in?
I work equally at home and at office and often find the most recently added references not have been uploaded to the server from the other computer.
If there's a conflict, auto-syncs are paused (with a sync error icon) until you sync manually, but those should be rare.
I can't answer your question specifically, but see this:
http://www.zotero.org/support/kb/changes_not_syncing
Still, it doesn't explain what I'm experiencing. My office computer is missing several references that I added through my home computer last night. If it was just one reference missing, the "15 second" rule makes sense - I might have shut down Firefox within 15 seconds of adding it. But I'm missing several references that were added over a span of a couple of hours, so something else must be going on.
Well, it's not a big deal. I'll try to make a habit of manually syncing Zotero before logging off.
Mea culpa.
It would help people like me who forget to open the Zotero pane before working on the draft and only get reminded by a missing citation error within Word.
By the same logic you mentioned, I get bogged down by several seconds while waiting for sync to complete in the middle of a Word-processing session, on which I conveniently put the blame for the interruption in my chain of thought.