Drag-and-Drop of Items in Zotero 2.0 not working

JoeA

For some reason I cannot drag and drop individual items between collections or out of trash into a collection. I am on a PPC PowerMac G5 running Firefox 3.6.6. Does anyone know how to fix this bug?

adamsmith

why are you running an outdated Firefox?

dstillman

There's a Restore button to restore items from the trash into all the original collections.

And you may just be confused as to how collections work. Dragging from one collection to another doesn't move the reference, since collections are not folders. The dragged item should appear in the new collection as well as the old one (the same as if you drag a song between playlists in iTunes).

JoeA

@adamsmith: I've been using the old google notebook extension and it only works in 3.6. Of course it would be unrealistic to stay with that version as 4 will be coming out soon so I am trying to transition to Zotero.

@Dan Stillman: I was under the impression that they were folders. I see now that I can drag the items between collections and just remove them from the ones I don't want them in. However it seems rather odd that there isn't a folder system as it would make things much simpler. Google Notebook allowed one to drag and items between various notebooks without hassle. Thanks for your help though.

~JoeA

adamsmith

google mail has the same collection principle, as has itunes.
There is a 3.6.12 version of Zotero - I didn't mean for you to install the beta.

ajlyon

"There is a 3.6.12 version of Zotero - I didn't mean for you to install the beta."
Firefox, that is.