Upgrade StorageZotero bugs when dragging notes containing more than 20.000 characters AND some formattings
I have tried to drag notes (stand alone as well as sub items) to move them under another citation (to change/assign the/a parent item) or on the tags in the tag pane to assign new tags but :
→ when a note contains more than 20.000 characters (I always used the HTML code to count the characters including the space)
AND
→ when its text is formatted with headings + highlights + colored texts + bold/italic/underline text,
then zotero freeze and firefox doesn't respond anymore
I have tried with notes formatted with headings + highlights + colored texts BUT with less than 20.000 characters : it's always working
I have tried with notes of more than 180.000 characters but without any formatting : it's always working.
This is happening in Zotero firefox add-on and in Zotero stand alone
version of firefox 35.0.1
version of zotero (firefox add-on) 4.0.26
version of zotero SA 4.0.23
Windows 7
Any idea why this is happening and how to solve that?
My workaround (if some of you have the same problem):
● for assigning tags: I use a dummy note to assign the tags and then I copy the tags (with zutilo) and paste them on the note I am really working on
● for changing parent citation: create a new note under the "correct" parent item and copy past the content of the notes I want to move into this new note.
→ when a note contains more than 20.000 characters (I always used the HTML code to count the characters including the space)
AND
→ when its text is formatted with headings + highlights + colored texts + bold/italic/underline text,
then zotero freeze and firefox doesn't respond anymore
I have tried with notes formatted with headings + highlights + colored texts BUT with less than 20.000 characters : it's always working
I have tried with notes of more than 180.000 characters but without any formatting : it's always working.
This is happening in Zotero firefox add-on and in Zotero stand alone
version of firefox 35.0.1
version of zotero (firefox add-on) 4.0.26
version of zotero SA 4.0.23
Windows 7
Any idea why this is happening and how to solve that?
My workaround (if some of you have the same problem):
● for assigning tags: I use a dummy note to assign the tags and then I copy the tags (with zutilo) and paste them on the note I am really working on
● for changing parent citation: create a new note under the "correct" parent item and copy past the content of the notes I want to move into this new note.
Have you tried letting it go for a while when this happens?
Does this happen with other extensions disabled?
Here the report ID (the tuto asks not to restart zotero before clicking on report a bug, but I had to, because my zotero is frozen once the bug start)
Report ID= 914632996 (zotero firefox)
Report ID= 846163564 (zotero stand alone)
+ For zotero firefox:
Yes I have tried several time to let it go for more than 5 minutes but Zotero remains frozen and firefox is set as "not responding" in windows task manager. The only solution (so far) is to end the task and restart firefox.
I have also disable all the firefox add-ons and the bug is still there.
+ For zotero stand alone:
I have also tried to wait (2 minutes) but it remains frozen and set as "not responding". Here also the only solution is to end the start and then resart ZST.
The same bugs happens under the same conditions with the same result in zotero firefox and ZTA so it seems related to zotero.
Hope this will help you. Also I forget to mention that I am on Windows 7
Could you try running Zotero with real-time debug output enabled and the console expanded as much as possible and visible (i.e., not hidden behind another window) to see if there's debug output while it frozen? If it stops during the freeze (or either way, I guess), take a screenshot of the last section of debug output, upload it somewhere (e.g., Dropbox), and provide a link here.
Try this in Firefox first, which uses a slightly better logging method.
I have checked on both console, not a single line is added when I select the notes and drag it on a tag or on under a new citation.
The bug only comes when there is a lot (like -really- a lot) of formattings so just to make sure it's not related to my computer/OS/..., I have copy-paste one of the note that creates the bug on this page so you could tried : (edit cf message below)
I hope you will be able to reproduce the bug with this one!
Yes, you got it Dan! I've just tested with 4.0Beta and... it's working! Thanks so much! This will definitely save me a lot of time. I am amazed by your efficiency, I would have never expect this to be solved in... only 2 days! That's really great. You are fantastic!
It's not much, at most about a second or so, but still, slower enough to be noticable.
Not sure if the size of my library can be relevant but just in case my library contains 1500 items (parents+subitems) divided in 10 categories, the.sqlite is 14.4MB and the storage folder is 450MB.