[Zotero 7 Beta] highlights don't sync properly between iOS and MacOS

telemachos

I've been highlighting and annotating a PDF on my iPad. I use Zotero storage for sync. Just now, I opened up the same PDF on my MacBook Pro, and I was dismayed to discover that the same passages do not appear highlighted on the different platforms. Furthermore, clicking on a particular highlight in the Zotero 7 PDF annotation pane takes me to a highlight that does not correspond to the text highlight chosen in the annotation pane!

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dstillman

Did you by any chance delete a PDF page outside of Zotero? E.g., a cover page? The annotations are just off by a page.

Can you share a screenshot that includes the annotations sidebar on your iPad?

telemachos

You're right -- I did delete the cover page outside of Zotero (in Acrobat). Once I realized this, I deleted all the highlights and reselected them, but the problem persists. Why? I'm attaching a screenshot of the annotations sidebar on my iPad (which now looks the same after I redownloaded the pdf with the cover page missing).

https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u703766/5ymmxix3c9qzbr5b3h03.jpg

dstillman

Once I realized this, I deleted all the highlights and reselected them, but the problem persists.

I'm not sure what you mean by this. If you delete the highlights and recreate them, they'd appear where you created them.