Upgrade Storagebibliography corrupted (authors appear in different articles than they should)
Dear Zotero-ists,
I have made a troubling discovery recently, which is that all my bibliographic information stored in Zotero became unreliable. :-(
Several of my bibliographic fields have the wrong author assigned to an item. For example, I would have:
* Dale, M; Craig, S. Nature 1990. ..
Which has become:
* Dale, M; Leopold, W. Nature 1990..
So the author has been replaced by an author that belonged to a different record. I'm afraid I will have to start all over from scratch and delete all my records, because I don't know which to trust anymore. Do you have any idea how this could have happened? How to avoid it? Can it be because I (accidentally) left Firefox open on both my computers? I am using Zotero 1.5 sync..
Thanks for any feedback!
an enthousiastic but slightly worried Zotero-user.
I have made a troubling discovery recently, which is that all my bibliographic information stored in Zotero became unreliable. :-(
Several of my bibliographic fields have the wrong author assigned to an item. For example, I would have:
* Dale, M; Craig, S. Nature 1990. ..
Which has become:
* Dale, M; Leopold, W. Nature 1990..
So the author has been replaced by an author that belonged to a different record. I'm afraid I will have to start all over from scratch and delete all my records, because I don't know which to trust anymore. Do you have any idea how this could have happened? How to avoid it? Can it be because I (accidentally) left Firefox open on both my computers? I am using Zotero 1.5 sync..
Thanks for any feedback!
an enthousiastic but slightly worried Zotero-user.
You could try using SQLite Manager to inspect the structure of the database and see if you can fix it up - from what you say it doesn't seem to be corrupt, just that an author ID has gone astray.