How about adding a reminder when import a new duplicated reference?

sfdsfsdf · August 30, 2023

Hello,

Whem add a new duplicate reference to Zotero, there is no reminder. How about add a reminder when doing this to give a choice to the user to decide whether continue to import. If choose "no", then go to the orginal reference automatically.

Thanks.

Jmbarker · September 8, 2023

Seconding this request

poettli · September 8, 2023

Duplicate of https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/78188/prevent-duplicate-during-import

chenglongma · December 13, 2023

The plugin https://github.com/ChenglongMa/zoplicate does exactly that.

It supports Zotero 6 and 7.

sfdsfsdf · December 13, 2023

Thanks. I tried it but got an error:

The add-on "%S" could not be installed. It may be incompatible with this version of Zotero.

chenglongma · December 13, 2023

Hi @sfdsfsdf,

Thanks for your feedback. Which version of Zotero are you using?

For Zotero 6, please download https://github.com/ChenglongMa/zoplicate/releases/download/zotero6/zoplicate.xpi

For Zotero 7, please use the latest version: https://github.com/ChenglongMa/zoplicate/releases/latest/download/zoplicate.xpi

Please let me know if you still got this error.

Thanks.

sfdsfsdf · December 13, 2023

Thanks for your kind reply. I am using 6.0.30 version of Zotero and I should have downloaded the suitable version for that. But I downloaded the wrong version of zoplicate. Now, it works.

Best regards.

tim820 · December 13, 2023

I've been using @chenglongma 's zoplicate plugin in the current version of Zotero (v6) and it has worked well so far.

One thing I haven't tested is what it does with linked PDF attachments. So for example, where a duplicate is flagged on download and the dialog box pops asking you which of the duplicate items to keep (one or the other, or both), does it delete a linked PDF attachment when it deletes the item that you have chosen not to keep ?

chenglongma · December 13, 2023

Hi @tim820,

Thanks for your feedback.

In the plugin, I use Zotero's default delete action, which is to "Move Item to Trash...".

Therefore, it won't delete the linked PDF attachment.

I will consider changing this behavior in a future version if needed.

Thanks!