Zotero is stuck handling entries with big author list

FoxWise
Dear all,

I didn't want to revive a post from 2015, but I guess this is a duplicate of: https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/51086/zotero-is-stuck-when-handling-very-many-author-names

Is it possible to edit (e..g reduce to 20 authors max) the long author lists, while importing an entry via Zotero connector on a fly?

Removing thousands of authors one by one from the Zotero entry in the standalone application does not seem feasible.

It is a common practice to have many authors in High-energy physics for papers from big collaborations.
  • aborel
    Indeed such long author lists are common, but Zotero should be able to manage that without too many problems. Can you give an example, and explain exactly how you were trying to import it?
  • FoxWise
    Here are some more details on how I get the freeze.
    It happens in the "Duplicate items" tab while trying to merge.

    Browser: Firefox 120.0
    OS: Ubuntu 22.04.03
    Zotero Connector: extension for Firefox, version 5.0.114
    Zotero standalone: 6.0.30

    Here is the paper:
    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037026931200857X

    1. Open the paper link
    2. Get the bibtex citation WITHOUT Zotero Connector to the txt file
    3. Remove all the authors from the txt file and copy in the buffer the rest.
    4. Add citation to the Zotero standalone application from Clipboard.
    5. Enable Zotero Connector extension
    6. In Zotero connector choose "Save to Zotero (ScienceDirect)"
    7. Go to the "Duplicate items" tab
    8. Click to select two recently added entries

    Result: It loads after around 19 seconds and during this time a pop-up window "Zotero is not responding" appears 3 times and proposes to quit the application.

    Note: Changing the "master" entry also works very slowly.

    Is this expected?
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