1454607215 Error when syncing

mikejohnson

Something amiss here - I'm trying to run my profile from a couple of places... The problem 1454607215 refers to is where I've set up the profile folder on networked filestore. I think it's the character limit again. I just switched from Zotero for Firefox to standalone to see if that would help but not. I'm thinking I can carry on working and ignore the problem... but will keep an eye out for any replies. I cant of course work from the networked profile but I can continue to work from the functioning laptop.
Hmmm... looks like I've been here before: https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/23307/error-report-1673850918-firefox-701-fails-to-sync
The thing I'm trying to do at work is get Zotero working well enough so that it can compare with Endnote on our network, which is the system supported by the University here. Endnote is 'OK I suppose' but it is a little more complex than I would like and students are unable to carry on using it after they leave unless they pay up.
IE is the 'supported' browser - Firefox (v24!) and Chrome are available as networked applications. It is possible for anyone to install the zotero plugin to Firefox but I think the way Firefox profiles happen here does cause problems with very long filenames. So perhaps the error is being caused by local conditions that zotero developers can do nothing about...

dstillman

[JavaScript Error: "[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIFile.lastModifiedTime]" nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://zotero/content/xpcom/storage.js :: Zotero.Sync.Storage</this.processDownload :: line 1282" data: no]" {file: "chrome://zotero/content/xpcom/file.js" line: 657}]

A few different issues here, but most or all likely a result of the data directory being on a network drive. (The one above is a generic error that should never happen and that we can't do anything about.)

mikejohnson

that does sound a bit like our network for you :)