Error message: "You have modified this citation since zotero generated it.…"
Hi - I get the following error message very often:
"You have modified this citation since zotero generated it. do you want to keep your modifications and prevent future updates? Clicking yes will prevent zotero from updating this citation if you add additional citations, switch styles, or modify the reference to which it refers. Clicking no will erase your changes."
I haven't figured out when I get it, other than very often!! It seems perhaps it is when I try to change something and then reinsert a footnote - and then whichever option I choose, Zotero proceeds to muck up all my footnotes so I barely know what has gone where. It's exasperating. Help appreciated.
This has already been discussed on this forum once - https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/22705/error-message-in-word-on-a-mac/
However there were no solutions achieved for this problem that I have been able to effect.
A user called Metsis seemed to have a solution (which noone seconded), however I have been unable to try his instructions, perhaps as he was using LibreOffice.
Help appreciated - many thanks
Lucy
Mac OS X 10.8.5
Safari
Word for Mac 2011, 14.4.6.
"You have modified this citation since zotero generated it. do you want to keep your modifications and prevent future updates? Clicking yes will prevent zotero from updating this citation if you add additional citations, switch styles, or modify the reference to which it refers. Clicking no will erase your changes."
I haven't figured out when I get it, other than very often!! It seems perhaps it is when I try to change something and then reinsert a footnote - and then whichever option I choose, Zotero proceeds to muck up all my footnotes so I barely know what has gone where. It's exasperating. Help appreciated.
This has already been discussed on this forum once - https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/22705/error-message-in-word-on-a-mac/
However there were no solutions achieved for this problem that I have been able to effect.
A user called Metsis seemed to have a solution (which noone seconded), however I have been unable to try his instructions, perhaps as he was using LibreOffice.
Help appreciated - many thanks
Lucy
Mac OS X 10.8.5
Safari
Word for Mac 2011, 14.4.6.
Given above, you may be able to more easily re-trigger the error (in a copy of your document of course). I'm still not really sure what happens exactly and it would be quite difficult for us to figure it out without an ability to reproduce the problem reliably. So if you can come up with some steps that produce the issue and (if needed) a sample document, we can take a look.
Do you have "Track Changes" enabled?
I'm also getting this problem but I think I know why: I'm adding page numbers manually to my citations. I didn't actually realise I needed to do this in the "Classic view" of Zotero.
I suppose I will need to go through all my manually edited citations and make sure the page numbers are in the "Classic view" box. Is that right? Thanks
https://www.zotero.org/support/word_processor_plugin_usage#quick_format_citation_dialog
This is a great tool. I know this is a pretty old thread but I, too, am getting this error. For me I believe it happens when I restart things. First, my version of said "things" :
LibreOffice Writer 5.2.7.2
Zotero 5.0.74
OS: Linux (Debian 9).
Zotero Document Settings:
Citation Style -> Chicago Manual of Style 17th edition (author-date)
Language -> English (US)
Store Citations as -> Reference Marks
Automatically update citations (checked)
This morning I started up my document, then started up Zotero. When adding a reference I got the above-mentioned error. It iterates over every citation in my document, showing this message for each one. When it shows the Original and the Modified version of the citation, the Original never has page numbers. So I wonder if some setting is being forgotten when the document is closed, so that it thinks every reference having page numbers has JUST been modified.
The quick and dirty fix for this is to just keep clicking "YES" to keep my changes. But as my document grows, this gets tedious. Happy to help trouble-shoot in any way. Is there an "enable debugging" option that can log more output on what Zotero is doing at this stage?
Did you type the page numbers in your document manually, or did you enter them in the page number field in the Zotero Add Citation window?
https://www.zotero.org/support/word_processor_plugin_usage#customizing_cites
The latter is the correct way to do it.