Upgrade StorageContent of Zotero database will not display
I seem to be in this weird state where I know that records exist in the Zotero database, but I can't get any to display in the Zotero interface. This is happening both with a stock 1.0.0b3 installation and the 1.0.0b3.r1.r1340 developer's XPI. This is the characteristics:
* The "Tag Selector" panel has a message that says "No tags to display" (whether "Display all tags" is checked or not, yet just below it there is a message which says "1 tag selected". Hitting the "Deselect all" button does not clear the "1 tag selected" message.
* I can export the library to Zotero RDF and see that all of my entries are there.
* If I add a record, I see it in the middle panel until I select a different collection, then it goes away.
* In the developer's XPI, if I choose "advanced search" and conduct a search, I see the correct results in the dialog box, but if I double click on one of the results nothing appears in the detail pane on the right.
I've tried clearing all of the Zotero entries in 'prefs.js' and 'localstore.rdf' but that didn't appear to have any effect one way or another. Any other suggestions?
* The "Tag Selector" panel has a message that says "No tags to display" (whether "Display all tags" is checked or not, yet just below it there is a message which says "1 tag selected". Hitting the "Deselect all" button does not clear the "1 tag selected" message.
* I can export the library to Zotero RDF and see that all of my entries are there.
* If I add a record, I see it in the middle panel until I select a different collection, then it goes away.
* In the developer's XPI, if I choose "advanced search" and conduct a search, I see the correct results in the dialog box, but if I double click on one of the results nothing appears in the detail pane on the right.
I've tried clearing all of the Zotero entries in 'prefs.js' and 'localstore.rdf' but that didn't appear to have any effect one way or another. Any other suggestions?
We fixed a problem with using JS special words as tags, but if you're seeing the problem in the dev XPI then there would seem to be another issue.
Does the problem persist if the tag selector is closed?
There are no errors logged in the browser error console, and the problem does persist whether the tag selector pane is open or closed. And prior to reading your note I tried exporting the whole database, deleting the 'zotero' directory in my profile directory, and importing the database. No change in behavior -- same symptoms.
I'm beginning to wonder if there is an extension conflict, although I would have expected that to show up in the error console...
You may be right that it's an extension conflict, however. If any of your installed extensions are extending JS Object.prototype or Array.prototype (or rely on third-party libraries that do), it would almost certainly break Zotero in various ways. And while we could fix problems arising from extending Array.prototype, if something's extending Object.prototype (which it seems from the "1 tag selected" message could be the case), there's not much we can do about it--which is why such a practice is pretty much verboten.
Could you try disabling other extensions and see if that fixes the problem?
If you're still having problems with Hyperwords 2.1.6 and Beta 4 of Zotero (now available), let us know.
As noted on another thread, there are probably still incompatibilities with extensions that extend Array.prototype that we need to fix. I've created a ticket to track such changes.