Upgrade StorageZotero 10 Bib Tex and Obsidian
Obsidian has not updated to sync with Zotero using Bib Tex, or Better Bib TeX….so it is nearly impossible to link metadata correctly to automatically update references and bibliography … I have spent hours with AI collaborator to design a code… has anybody got the latest version of Zotero 10 working correctly … I attempted to download and older version which works correctly with Bib TeX and Obsidian, however Zotero will not let you download an older version….has anybody got an answer to this issue please.
I have been having on and off problem with this integration myself. But there is no direct sync, presumably you are using a plug-in (or maybe up to three) in Obsidian.
Trouble started earlier this year : https://forum.obsidian.md/t/zotero-integration-and-citations/113012/7
I haven't found a firm resolution on this. I have the same problem where older items are correctly identified by bibtex key from the internal Zotero API, but newer ones do not get detected.
I have found a workaround which is to change a field (any would do, I go for typing one characted in "Place", then reverting the change) against the item. This changes something on the Zotero end that makes the reference findable.
Bulk "refresh bibtex key" update will not work, because most will not change a field, this needs to be an actual change.
This seems to be a problem at the zotero end, though I'd need to get better at troubleshooting the internal API to confirm.
Having said that, this is based on the problem I have described. If none of the @... references in your Obsidian notes are found, you have a bigger problem. The obsidian forums are better than the Zotero ones for these, but going in Zotero setting and checking the internal API is up, on the correct port (using the same port number in the config of the obsidian plugins) is a start.
Does this help? I'm sorry to say your message doesn't really describe your setup nor your actual problem, but, having wrangled many such issues in the past year, I didn't want to leave a cry for help unanswered!
Quite right - the fix is at the Zotero end, so I assumed a caching issue there. But, having made internal API calls for correct refs and broken ones, and it working equally well each way, I ruled it out just after posting this
My specific manifestation of this issue turns out to be a problem in the bibliography caching of the Pandoc Reference List plugin, which is the way many Obsidian users integrate citation in their workflow (but tend to omit when diagnosing, cause it doesn't have "zotero" in the name, though it pulls from the interal API).
The problem is describe in this Github issue for the plugin: https://github.com/community-archive/obsidian-pandoc-reference-list/issues/151
There's a workaround listed too. @haelalegnai may find this helpful!