switching citation style

vickylin

HELLO!
THANKS for all the brilliant work!!

Question: I have been using MRHA (with biblio) for ALL my chapters thus far, but want to switch to Harvard.

What is the most painless way to do this to? NOT 1 by 1 manually, I HOPE!

THANK YOU!
V

adamsmith

http://www.zotero.org/support/word_processor_plugin_usage#document_preferences
you'll likely still have to do some manual touch ups.

vickylin

EXCELLENT Adamsmith - MANY MANY THANKS! 1 MILLION THANKS!!

Vicky

vickylin

Hi!

I am using a new macbook pro OSX 10.9.4 2.6GHz intel core i7 16GB 1600 Mhz DDR3. in short the most high end machine (thus far). However the machine kept having kernel panics i.e. it shuts down midway. Been to see the "geniuses" (large quote marks) twice and they serviced the machine twice and finally identified that it's the zotero plugin in firefox. they say I should speak to you guys, and also swop to Safari as that's the preferred Mac server.

- Are they right?

- So I now am on Safari. Takes getting used to. but can you tell me how I can see my library like I could on Firefox?

By the way MANY MANY thanks for inventing Zotero and providing such a brilliant service for mankind. after 4.5 years Ive passed my PhD - large part thanks to Zotero. I am grateful to Zotero.

My most sincere thanks,
Vicky

adamsmith

Are they right?

I'll leave this for Dan, the lead developer, but since he's developing mainly on Mac, I'd be rather surprised if that were the case.

- So I now am on Safari. Takes getting used to. but can you tell me how I can see my library like I could on Firefox?

You'd install Zotero Standalone (download from zotero.org/download ) alongside the Safari Connector for Zotero. Your library won't show up in Safari the way it did in Firefox, but will show up in a separate program (which you obviously need to start separately). That program--Zotero Standalone--however, will look exactly like the open Zotero pane in Firefox, so it won't take much getting used to.

dstillman

They seem to be somewhat confused as to what a kernel panic is (or, to be more charitable, what Zotero is). A kernel panic is basically the lowest level of the OS freaking out, and it's caused by a bug in the OS or some extension of the OS (a loaded module, a device driver — basically things that interact with your hardware or the internals of your OS). It can also be caused by something like bad RAM. High-level programs like Zotero can't cause kernel panics by definition (even if by chance they happen to be triggering them). I'm afraid you'll probably need to take it back to them and hope for a better-informed genius.

vickylin

Thank you both, Adamsmith and Dan for your great advice!

bit more about the pesky "geniuses" and MBP if you have advice: The "geniuses" (who said their engineers ran tests of my machine) insisted that it is not the OS, but the softwares I was using (firefox), or how I was using them (firefox used at the same time with chrome). I had heated discussions with the geniuses who kept outsourcing the blame on softwares not being high(-end) enough to match the MBP. It's a brand new machine - and it was obvious that they were talking rubbish but won't repair/change it. I'm glad that my Zotero is trustworthy (with Standalone, etc). If you have any advice on what I can do about the MBP I will be grateful! Many thanks.

Yours Sincerely Vicky.

dstillman

firefox used at the same time with chrome

softwares not being high(-end) enough to match the MBP.

Right, that's all nonsense.

I'm afraid there's really no way for us to debug a kernel panic via these forums. We probably have to assume they at least checked the RAM for errors. If you have any third-party hardware, you should certainly try without it connected. Beyond that, you'd have to find someone to review the crash logs and try to figure out what kernel module/etc. is actually causing the problem.

You could obviously try to back up your data and do a clean install, but that'd be pretty annoying, particularly on a new machine. So I think finding a better genius is still your best bet.