I use Zotero on two different computers. One is a private computer, the other is at my office. The privat computer has a direct acces to the internet und r26 works well. The other computer is routed through a proxy and this one has the described probem. I will test r27 tomorrow at my office and I will report.
Do you mean that you lost your feed subscriptions? The items within the feed? The items you added from the feed to one of your collections?
Each of these has different implications. The loss of items within the feed could be related to the setting of how long items marked as read should be kept.
I have been using the Zotero 5 feed function all day every day this week. After an initial minor issue, everything has worked quite well. I am finding Zotero's feed function an extraordinary useful tool.
I have encountered problems subscribing to the feeds from several publishers. It seems that every one of the major journal publishers has its own ideas about how to subscribe to one of their feeds. Some publishers require clicking through 3 or more screens. The auto-recognize function doesn't work properly for ScienceDirect -- they serve a feed for a different journal. There is little Zotero can do about that. Once the idiosyncrasies of each publisher have been discovered, the feeds come through perfectly. (Except that for Inderscience -- a publisher with metadata that is frequently and astoundingly bizarre.)
Feed items which where transfered to my collections are still available.
Items within the feed are not the problem.
The list of subscribed feeds is the problem. After update from rc26 to rc27 not all of the entries were available. Maybe this is an effect which occurs with the update from rc26 to rc27.
I agree that the feed fuchtion is an useful tool and I hope my testing will help to make it stable and also more convenient.
No, r26 to r27 shouldn't have had any effect on subscribed feeds. To be clear, this is on the same computer, or is this on another computer (meaning it would be a sync issue)?
I cannot speak to any syncing issue but I can say that I have had no losses of feed subscriptions through the past several updates. I'm now using r28.
I subscribe to 50+ feeds. [Is there a limit to the number of feeds?]
(I am not syncing because my primary use of Zotero is as a MODS translator. For the past year I've been moving more than 400 items a day from publisher sites through my Zotero client and via MODS to my online database. Once the items are in SafetyLit I delete them from Zotero. Let me add that emptying the trash is a much quicker process in 5.0 than earlier versions.)
From my side it seems that now everything works well. Sync of collection and feeds between different computers (rc27 on both computers) at different places works without loss of feeds.
Currently I have problems with the feed content when I move items from feeds into collections.
For this I think I will open a new topic.
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I use Zotero on two different computers. One is a private computer, the other is at my office. The privat computer has a direct acces to the internet und r26 works well. The other computer is routed through a proxy and this one has the described probem. I will test r27 tomorrow at my office and I will report.
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Andreas
But it seems that I lost my feed entries that I made yesterday. I will make some further test and I will report.
Each of these has different implications. The loss of items within the feed could be related to the setting of how long items marked as read should be kept.
I have been using the Zotero 5 feed function all day every day this week. After an initial minor issue, everything has worked quite well. I am finding Zotero's feed function an extraordinary useful tool.
I have encountered problems subscribing to the feeds from several publishers. It seems that every one of the major journal publishers has its own ideas about how to subscribe to one of their feeds. Some publishers require clicking through 3 or more screens. The auto-recognize function doesn't work properly for ScienceDirect -- they serve a feed for a different journal. There is little Zotero can do about that. Once the idiosyncrasies of each publisher have been discovered, the feeds come through perfectly. (Except that for Inderscience -- a publisher with metadata that is frequently and astoundingly bizarre.)
Items within the feed are not the problem.
The list of subscribed feeds is the problem. After update from rc26 to rc27 not all of the entries were available. Maybe this is an effect which occurs with the update from rc26 to rc27.
I agree that the feed fuchtion is an useful tool and I hope my testing will help to make it stable and also more convenient.
I subscribe to 50+ feeds. [Is there a limit to the number of feeds?]
(I am not syncing because my primary use of Zotero is as a MODS translator. For the past year I've been moving more than 400 items a day from publisher sites through my Zotero client and via MODS to my online database. Once the items are in SafetyLit I delete them from Zotero. Let me add that emptying the trash is a much quicker process in 5.0 than earlier versions.)
Currently I have problems with the feed content when I move items from feeds into collections.
For this I think I will open a new topic.