Upgrade StorageZotero BibTeX export produces invalid files
Whenever I export to BibTex it produces an "empty" file like this:
Any help on this is highly appreciated. I don't mind attaching my library and settings to a bug report, if applicable.
It's hard to guess what happens, but the UI still shows all entries as supposed.
@misc{__????
},
@misc{__????-1
},
Any help on this is highly appreciated. I don't mind attaching my library and settings to a bug report, if applicable.
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Generally the Bibtex Translator works, so this is specific to your library or a local translator problem.
To exclude the latter: First, try to see if the same thing happens while exporting a very standard item. If so, try resetting your translators from the advanced tab of the Zotero preferences and see if that helps. Also do you have any add-ons installed that may alter BibTeX output? Like AutoZotBib or so?
If a single, regular item works, it would be helpful if you could narrow this down for us - try exporting bibtex in chunks and see what doesn't work. Once you have found a chunk - ideally not much larger than 20 items - that don't export, export them to Zotero RDF (no notes/attachments) open the .rdf file with a texteditor (notepad, textedit) and copy the entire content to a site like pastebin.com or gist.github.com - provide the link here and we'll take a look.
I have rest all translators (I don't think I ever had anything changed in there) and disabled all Firefox add-ons except Zotero and "Ubuntu Firefox Modifications" but nothing changed. Still the same invalid output :/
It appears it does not depend on a specific library item, since exporting a very old one that has been successfully exported before still does *not* work.
So I tried the following:
I checked the Database integrity with the Zotero advanced tab: No Errors
I have then enabled logging and exported a single item (named "The Web Origin Concept") to bibtex: No error, but invalid file, as above
Then I exported another single item (named "Robust defenses for cross-site request forgery") to RDF: Erorr Message "An error occurred while trying to export the selected file." shows.
The debugging output has been submitted to pastebin, see here:
http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=sw3JpnGv
Do you have any further suggestions? I am not sure whether the log output is helpful. If not, I can provide a log file for the whole Zotero run.
Zotero's current translator infrastructure isn't quite compatible with Firefox 17 - I believe most of this is fixed/in place in the trunk, so if you want to test this out, you can install the trunk xpi:
http://www.zotero.org/support/dev_builds#zotero_trunk
but take those warnings very seriously - the trunk is really not intended for regular work (though people do use it - and you're running a FF alpha, too), but error reports on it are very much welcome (make sure to mention your exact verion number from "About" in the gears menu).
Zotero will have a new, compatible release out for the final release of FF 17 on, I believe, November 20th.
My thesis is no longer doomed. Hooray! :)
User Agent is "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Firefox/17.0"
But don't worry about my thesis, I am just being dramatic.
If you need debug output again, just shoot...
Either way, an updated version of the BibTeX translator will not attempt to export standalone notes/attachments. You can wait for the translator to update automatically within 24 hours or update manually via Preferences -> General -> Update Now. Try exporting with the updated translator and see if you still get the empty entries.
RDF translator might be failing for the same reason. I will investigate that further.