Upgrade StorageFeedback & Feature (BUG?) Request: Zotero 7 on Chromebook (.deb)
There is ZERO visual feedback when I drag & drop large numbers of PDFs (up to 2k). There is ZERO indication that the drop operation was successful. After a 2k file drop, the UI did nothing for almost 20min (not even the tiny spinner in the folded paper icon). It was not frozen. After multiple false starts, I opened the ChromeOS file manager, and could see Zotero creating the storage subdirectories (I deleted them for a fresh start).
After releasing the drag group icon over Zotero, it flies back to the file manager, giving the false impression that the drop failed. Because I didn't know Zotero was working, I closed and reopened Zotero and retried the drop multiple times, causing zillions of unnecessary duplicates. I tried several linux-native file managers, and got the same behavior.
Please, please, please add some sort of indication that the drop is successful, and a progress bar while Zotero is busy copying files. My 2k PDFs (4.6Gb) were copied from one Linux directory to another, and it took nearly 20min. My Chromebook is not slow: Acer Spin CP713-3W-76BL Core i7 1.2Ghz. The slowness is not a big deal. The problem is that Zotero doesn't give any feedback until the Processing window pops up. A progess bar before that would have saved me a day and a half of frustration. (But I learned a lot! :)
IDEA: the simplest way to get a progress bar might be to interleave the copying and processing instead of batching all the copying before beginning the processing. It's the silent batch operation that is highly confusing.
Thank you! And thank you for Zotero!
After releasing the drag group icon over Zotero, it flies back to the file manager, giving the false impression that the drop failed. Because I didn't know Zotero was working, I closed and reopened Zotero and retried the drop multiple times, causing zillions of unnecessary duplicates. I tried several linux-native file managers, and got the same behavior.
Please, please, please add some sort of indication that the drop is successful, and a progress bar while Zotero is busy copying files. My 2k PDFs (4.6Gb) were copied from one Linux directory to another, and it took nearly 20min. My Chromebook is not slow: Acer Spin CP713-3W-76BL Core i7 1.2Ghz. The slowness is not a big deal. The problem is that Zotero doesn't give any feedback until the Processing window pops up. A progess bar before that would have saved me a day and a half of frustration. (But I learned a lot! :)
IDEA: the simplest way to get a progress bar might be to interleave the copying and processing instead of batching all the copying before beginning the processing. It's the silent batch operation that is highly confusing.
Thank you! And thank you for Zotero!