attachment path cannot be set for link attachments

kittent

I have deinstalled and reinstalled firefox v3, zotero 1.0.9 and sync 1.5...my work computer and my acer aspire one sync fine, but there was a problem with my laptop, so I am starting from scratch. Everything seems to be the same, but I bring up zotero and instead of syncing it gives me the following message: AttachementPath cannot be set for link attachments.

I adore zotero as an idea and as a working tool, but I have no clue how to follow most of the "help" advice in the forums.

MarcJohannes

Hi kittent, I've expirienced the same problem. But the following did the job for me:

1. restart firefox
2. go to zotero preferences
3. click on the sync logo and on that page on the 'reset'-Tab
4. now choose 'Restore from Server' and click the 'restore'-Button
5. After another restart of firefox zotero fetched the data from the server and everything was in sync

I hope this will help you.

Cheers,
Marc

acgetchell

For Zotero 1.5b1 this says you must enter a username and password in the settings tab, even though I have already done so.

acgetchell

I reset the data directory to a different folder (which was empty) and resynced. Then it worked. However (as might be expected) it lost all associated files, such as PDF versions of papers.

FSaldanha

I am experiencing the same problems as acgetchell:

"For Zotero 1.5b1 this says you must enter a username and password in the settings tab, even though I have already done so"

Also, MarcJohannes says one should click on the Restore button but there is no such button. There is a Reset button. Maybe this was a typo, maybe the software has changed.

Can anyone help?

Thanks.

dstillman

FSaldanha: Make sure you're running Zotero 1.5 Beta 2.

bradco

I'm new to 1.5 Beta 2 & have been receiving the same error. I'm using Windows Live Sync as Webdav agent (used to be FolderShare). Marc's solution above is working for me so far.

sean

This problem is likely fixed in the trunk and will ship with beta 3.