Upgrade StorageMerging Chapters with Footnotes - On a Mac
I am running Sequoia 15.5 on a mac mini. 16 GB, intel chip.
I have my book in 21 chapters, about 65,000 words, with 20-70 footnotes per chapter. I have read that Zotero can get very slow once I merge the chapters into the book template.
Should I:
1) Sever the footnote ties to Zotero before I copy to the book template (one chapter at a time)
or
2) Copy over all the chapters and then sever the tie to the Zotero database.
Once in Word, I am moving the footnotes to endnotes. I understand once I sever the tie to the Zotero database, I have to maintain the notes on my own.
Thank you for your input.
I have my book in 21 chapters, about 65,000 words, with 20-70 footnotes per chapter. I have read that Zotero can get very slow once I merge the chapters into the book template.
Should I:
1) Sever the footnote ties to Zotero before I copy to the book template (one chapter at a time)
or
2) Copy over all the chapters and then sever the tie to the Zotero database.
Once in Word, I am moving the footnotes to endnotes. I understand once I sever the tie to the Zotero database, I have to maintain the notes on my own.
Thank you for your input.
You have two options.
Merge the documents and then let it update and run through. It might look like it gets stuck, but it'll be working in the background. Do this overnight when you leave the computer.
Alternatively, do it on a PC if you have access to one. The integration is a lot faster there.
Also, it's ok to ping after a day or so. You will see there are many threads and one can get lost among them. But two pings straight after another is seen as rude. It's Sunday on top of that, so less people are online.
And I posted this six days ago...is it not rude to ignore a post for six days? And this was my first post...welcome to the world of Zotero!
You don't need a bibliography? Because for that, you'll have to have everything active in a single document.
I'm doing a full note in Chicago style as my footnotes (to become endnotes), which "technically" eliminates the need for a bibliography. But I produced a bibliography directly from Zotero and edited it to a "selected bibliography."
It's curious to me why the performance issues in the Mac and, to some degree, Windows with Microsoft Word are not solved, and yet I see a lot of posts on "new" functionality. It's like designing a car that does great if you drive it a block, but it struggles to go across town. I worked 35 years at a college, and I would be hesitant to recommend Zotero to students because of its struggles with large projects, where it is needed the most. I wouldn't need this for the average 10 to 20 page paper in college, but I would have loved this for my thesis and dissertation. But beware - it doesn't seem to work well for those types of large documents. Just my 2 cents.