Upgrade StoragePlease make it harder for children to leave parents
Please make it harder to "unlink" children from their parents.
Fairly frequently I initiate some sort of action that results in separating a note from it's parent. Since I don't always realize it at the time, it may stay separated for some time. Then I have to try and figure out where it belongs.
One way it happens is if I start to drag an item to a collection, then realize that I accidentally clicked on a note instead of the main item. I then abort the transfer, but my reflex is to return to the original place before releasing the click. But that then effectively unlinks the note and it's now a stand alone note, and who knows where it suddenly went.
So, is there any chance of adding a confirmation window before children get separated? Or maybe an undo MOVE?
Fairly frequently I initiate some sort of action that results in separating a note from it's parent. Since I don't always realize it at the time, it may stay separated for some time. Then I have to try and figure out where it belongs.
One way it happens is if I start to drag an item to a collection, then realize that I accidentally clicked on a note instead of the main item. I then abort the transfer, but my reflex is to return to the original place before releasing the click. But that then effectively unlinks the note and it's now a stand alone note, and who knows where it suddenly went.
So, is there any chance of adding a confirmation window before children get separated? Or maybe an undo MOVE?
Any aborted drag seems to separate the child note from its parent. What happened these last two times was that I clicked on a note, and before releasing, I moved the mouse ever so slightly. That, in effect, initiated a drag. Even if I drop it right away, the note gets separated. I really try to be careful, but involuntary slips happen. If I notice it right away, I can usually remember what parent item I was working with, but sometimes I don't realize until later, and I have no idea what the parent was.
Can something be done to make this harder to happen? It must not be a common problem, or I'd think the forum would be full of complaints, but it has happened to someone else:
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/13319/child-notes-accidentally-dragged-away-from-parent-items
Thanks for looking into this.
I don't know how many times over the years I've had to drag an orphaned child note back to its parent.
A minor but frequent annoyance.
Thoughts?
Still a major problem.