Duplicates that aren't

NSBoxall

Hello (again).

So, standalone works a LOOOOT quicker for importing RIS.txt files when it's not attmepting to autosync - I managed to get 500 records imported in <10mins. HURRAH.

However, I now have false duplicates.

The original file was deduplicated and contained none - so imagine my surprise to find loads. Some of them: 21 times.

Looking at each individual though; their titles are different, their authors are differnet...er...everything is different: they're not duplicates at all.

I'm intending to download a whole load of other references from HEED (not on OVID) which I was hoping to use Zotero's duplicate function to check for (true) duplicates. Can this not be done?

Shall I send the original txt file through somewhere see if you get the same problem?

Thanks ,
Naomi

adamsmith

could you export just those items as Zotero RDF, open the file in a text editor --> select all --> copy and paste them to a public gist on gist.github.com and link to them here?

Generally what you want to do is possible, but Zotero doesn't have a great way do deal with false duplicates (which do occur at times) at the moment. Best strategy I can think of is this:
1. Once you have everything imported, create a colored tag "duplicate" and assign it to all items in the "Duplicate" saved search.
2. Now, still in that saved search, filter by that tag - right now, you'll still see all items, obviously.
3. You can now simply remove an item - one that isn't a duplicate - from that view by removing the tag (which you can do by just pressing the number assigned to it.

See more on colored tags here: http://zotero-manual.github.io/zotero-manual/tags#colored_tags