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So I first discovered Zotero this summer, downloaded, installed, and fiddled a little. I was excited about showing it to my students this fall. But I hadn't tried using it in earnest till this weekend.
What am I not getting? I took a snapshot of a webpage and started highlighting and annotating away. After about an hour's work I quit FF (I'm using 10.5 on a MacBook Pro), and when I restarted it and went back to my snapshot, all my edits were gone.
Maybe just a fluke? So I did a few random highlights and annotations, quit FF again, restarted. Fine, they're still there. Whew.
Next morning, after a computer restart, they're still there. Reassuring. So I unhighlight the random highlights and delete the notes. I close the tab in FF. I reopen and start to do some real highlighting and annotating.
But to be on the safe side, after just a few minutes of this I close the tab and reopen to make sure all is well. WTF????? The new edits are gone, and the old highlights (though not the old notes) are there again.
In short the highlight/annotate feature of Zotero is 100% unreliable for me, and hence unusable. Am I supposed to save my changes somehow? I thought not - thought that everything was saved automatically. But maybe there's something in the documentation that I missed?
What a disappointment. Guess I won't be sharing Zotero with my students after all - or using it myself.
Unless - as I said - I'm missing something???????
What am I not getting? I took a snapshot of a webpage and started highlighting and annotating away. After about an hour's work I quit FF (I'm using 10.5 on a MacBook Pro), and when I restarted it and went back to my snapshot, all my edits were gone.
Maybe just a fluke? So I did a few random highlights and annotations, quit FF again, restarted. Fine, they're still there. Whew.
Next morning, after a computer restart, they're still there. Reassuring. So I unhighlight the random highlights and delete the notes. I close the tab in FF. I reopen and start to do some real highlighting and annotating.
But to be on the safe side, after just a few minutes of this I close the tab and reopen to make sure all is well. WTF????? The new edits are gone, and the old highlights (though not the old notes) are there again.
In short the highlight/annotate feature of Zotero is 100% unreliable for me, and hence unusable. Am I supposed to save my changes somehow? I thought not - thought that everything was saved automatically. But maybe there's something in the documentation that I missed?
What a disappointment. Guess I won't be sharing Zotero with my students after all - or using it myself.
Unless - as I said - I'm missing something???????
I installed the branch build and restarted FF. The problems are, if anything, worse.
Went back to the snapshot I've been working on. Unhighlighted some text. But one bit of text stubbornly refused to be unhighlighted.
Quit FF and re-opened. The text that wouldn't unhighlight was now unhighlighted. OK.
Highlighted some more text, closed the window. (I'm staying away from tabs for this, having found another discussion suggesting these may be problematic with Zotero.)
Re-opened. Highlights were gone.
And now, when I click the annotation tool on the toolbar, instead of a sticky I get a Firefox popup (where the sticky should be) that says, "File Not Found."
Oy.
I can't reproduce any of these problems, but the new code hasn't been fully tested. What are some of the pages you're trying to highlight/annotate, and what method are you using to close the page or navigate away from it?
I did get an error when I checked the actions menu after the original problem occurred (before I installed the 1.0 branch build) and - I think - submitted it, but didn't note the ID for that.
The page I've been trying to edit is a project gutenberg html file (alice's adventures in wonderland).
As for navigating away: I've opened and closed a dedicated window for the page, opened and closed a dedicated tab, and quit FF either from a tab or a window. I believe, too (but am not sure) that I've navigated away to another webpage within the same tab or window, then returned to the snapshot to find my highlights and annotations lost.
Don't know how to see what build I'm using. Actions > About Zotero only shows me the version number.
So should I go back to your link to the 1.0 branch build and start all over?
So, yes, reinstall the latest branch build from the link I provided.
Today I went back to your link for the branch build and reinstalled from there again. Actions > About Zotero says I'm at 1.07.r3309 (still? again?).
Good news, though. As of right now the application seems to be working normally. The stickies are working, and I've left the page by, in turns, closing a tab, closing a dedicated FF window, and quitting FF. In all cases, the changes seem to be saved.
If you're still following this thread, thanks for your help!