Related element suppressed and still counted

PhilLebeau · 2025-07-04T12:38:32+00:00

Quite new and french speaking, so i hope to be clear and understood. I just suppressed a "related" (I had stupidly made a relation to the book himself). The related disappeared but the counter is not decreased, and if i look in obsidian with the data explorer, i still see the related. Did i do something wrong ? Do you need some more information to help me ? I'm on windows, with last version, and plugins : Better bibtex and better notes. Thanks in advance

dstillman · 2025-07-04T13:36:22+00:00

How did you relate an item to itself? Zotero itself shouldn't ever allow that.

If you did this with a plugin, you should report this to the plugin developer.

If you're not able to fix it, you should delete the item and re-add it.

PhilLebeau · 2025-07-04T13:53:46+00:00

Well, you are totally right, I don't understand myself. As I said, i'm beginner and this is a trial database. But unfortunately, I did it. And as you can see, zotero tells me that there are 3 related, and shows only 2. I have to go to the data explorer of obsidian to see that the third one is the book itself !

https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u15990799/9sbi8memn40l1y641pf1.png

PhilLebeau · 2025-07-04T13:56:01+00:00

And here is the capture of the data explorer

https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u15990799/zhd9rl1u63tucfki16wa.png