Biblio in double!
After a synchronization, all my biblio has been doubled. It is now a problem when I want to cite it in word. Could you tell me how to un-doubled them? (I know this is possible in Endnote for example, I hope it is also here!!). Thank you for your help.
The sync is not working properly, it always makes my library double. I don't know why, and I just would like to take the doubles out and NOT synchronize anymore.
Delete the doubles and you won't get them again unless you export/import items.
I agree that if one syncs from the beginning this shouldn't happen. But if one is in the habit of using many computers without syncing (e.g. library on a shared hard drive or on a flash drive), and one tries to switch to syncing, the library will double each time that new computer is synced.
Perhaps a workaround is when one is using a computer and isn't sure if it has been synced, to delete everything in the library before entering enabling syncing?
If you've been transferring around a Zotero 1.0 library and upgrading it on various computers, though, you would absolutely get duplicates.
So if I sit down at a computer with 1.0 on it, I should avoid upgrading it, right?
And if I sit down at a computer without zotero on it, I should install 1.0 if possible?
What about my workaround, to delete my library from a questionable computer before syncing it? Would that effectively prevent duplicates?
http://www.zotero.org/support/zotero_data
Zotero will then create a fresh, empty library the next time you start it and you can then sync to populate it.
I think the "in a while" - which would really have to mean a year and a half, which is when 2.0 went final - threw us off a little.
edit: note that this is the same that Dan is saying, we overlapped.