First sync attempt on new installation: invalid response from server

topplay · March 1, 2009

Hello,

I installed a fresh copy of firefox followed by zotero 1.5b1 on a new windows installation (actually a new bootcamp installation on a mac, but I guess that's an unimportant detail).

I entered my zotero sync server settings and then switched to the reset tab and selected restore from zotero server (maybe this was unnecessary and caused the following problem?).

Now zotero seems to be trying to sync (the circular arrow is swirling) but nothing happens for a while....... then eventually an 'invalid response from server' error is produced.

Syncing is still working ok on my other machine + I have double checked the login credentials I am using on the new machine.

Any help on what I should do next to resolve this would be much appreciated.

dstillman · March 1, 2009

You're liking getting a server timeout. We're still making optimizations server-side to get syncing working with larger libraries, and we'll be rolling out some improvements over the next few days.

philgons · March 1, 2009

How many entries do you have in your database? Several of us have been having problems with larger databases, and they are working on a fix.

See here:

topplay · March 1, 2009

Thanks for the responses, I'll look forward to the fix.
My library is not as big as others who have been flagging this problem......1800 entries.