Magic wand and Chrome Connector not working for months

huguesLM · 2025-03-05T20:28:26+00:00

It’s been months now since the magic wand feature hasn’t worked at all for me with DOI and ISBN, regardless of the books or articles I try to save to my library. I always get the same error message: "Zotero could not find a record for the specified ID. Please check the ID and try again." (The wording might not be exact, as I translated it from the French version of Zotero.)

I’m also experiencing a similar issue with the Zotero Connector: PDFs haven’t been saving to my library for a couple of months. The article or book itself is added to my library, but the PDF upload consistently fails. I checked the connector settings, and it seems like the Automatic File Import options are missing entirely [see image].

Any help would be greatly appreciated! These features aren’t essential, but they really speed up my workflow, so I’d love to get them working again. Thank you!

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dstillman · 2025-03-05T20:30:52+00:00

We always need example identifiers and URLs for problems with saving. We'd also want a Debug ID from Zotero for an Add Item by Identifier attempt and another from Zotero for reloading the page in your browser and saving without a PDF.

(There's nothing wrong with the settings.)

huguesLM · 2025-03-06T16:24:16+00:00

Thank @dstillman for your response!

Here's the DOI of the book I try to add with the identifier and the debug ID
– https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822385400
– D1670455364

And here's the URL and debug ID for the pdf saving with the connector :

– https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01436599715073
– D1016587466

And as for the settings, I was looking at this page (https://www.zotero.org/support/connector_preferences) as a reference where it is mentioned and showed that options for pdf saving would be in the connector's preferences. Anyway, glad to hear that my settings are normal.