Google Docs Zotero DELETED my thesis

Doruk2662

I added a citation as I always did on google docs. And the entire text below the citation until the bibliography was deleted PERMANENTLY.

I could recover a part of my thesis from earlier saves, and some hours of my work was gone. Then I added an item to the bibliography, and the entire bibliography was reformatted into something random. Undoing is impossible. When I manually corrected the format, the entire bibliography was de-attached from the text. The latter happened twice in two days, and I have no idea why. I lost hours and I am very upset.

FYI,

Regards

dstillman

We can try to debug that, but you should be able to undo from the Google Docs version history.

dstillman

the entire bibliography was reformatted into something random

You'd have to say more — copy and paste or provide a screenshot. Note that, unless you've added uncited items to the bibliography, which is uncommon, the bibliography is just a representation of the citations you have in the document, so you can always simply delete it and reinsert it with Add/Edit Bibliography.

Doruk2662

Unfortunately the most recent google docs save was from hours ago. I recovered from there what I could already. Thank you for the suggestion.

AbeJellinek

Click the "Expand detailed versions" button in the version history panel:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u6580876/8gwfjnw2ge5lbpl7563j.png

Google Docs saves a new version every minute or two as long as you're connected to the internet.