Upgrade Storageplease give us a duplicate items pop up warning
hello,
overall zotero is fantastic. I hope you have a duplicate items pop up warning (like a small pop up that would pop up somewhere as soon as a duplicate is being downloaded.
the reason is that for me, I don't see any good reason to have a duplicate item. So duplicate items are always a headache for me. The problem is I never know if I'm downloading a duplicated item or not. When I discover some duplicated items, normally there are five or 10 already piling up in that folder. Because I create many different folders (more than a thousand), and very often an item would go to three or four different folders or even more. If I have one article that should go to seven different folders ABCD EFG. If I have only one article, is not a problem. If I have duplicated 2 articles, the first one goes to folder ABCD, the second one goes to folder EFG, by the time I discover the duplication, I usually will never be able to consolidate the article and move it to all seven folders. This is because an item doesn't show which folders it belongs to (which is another's feature I like to suggest-- for example, when we right-click an item, ideally a drop down window (maybe 2nd layer) shows all the folders this article belongs to).
Thanks a lot
overall zotero is fantastic. I hope you have a duplicate items pop up warning (like a small pop up that would pop up somewhere as soon as a duplicate is being downloaded.
the reason is that for me, I don't see any good reason to have a duplicate item. So duplicate items are always a headache for me. The problem is I never know if I'm downloading a duplicated item or not. When I discover some duplicated items, normally there are five or 10 already piling up in that folder. Because I create many different folders (more than a thousand), and very often an item would go to three or four different folders or even more. If I have one article that should go to seven different folders ABCD EFG. If I have only one article, is not a problem. If I have duplicated 2 articles, the first one goes to folder ABCD, the second one goes to folder EFG, by the time I discover the duplication, I usually will never be able to consolidate the article and move it to all seven folders. This is because an item doesn't show which folders it belongs to (which is another's feature I like to suggest-- for example, when we right-click an item, ideally a drop down window (maybe 2nd layer) shows all the folders this article belongs to).
Thanks a lot
https://www.zotero.org/support/collections_and_tags#identifying_collections_an_item_is_in
For the first request, there is an add-on that kind of does this if you're _not_ running Standalone (i.e. just the Firefox version). If you search the forums for "prevent duplicates" you should be able to find more info on that.
thank you so much for your quick reply. I encounter problems for both solutions.
For the first request, I was able to get everything ready to install the add on to Firefox but the new Firefox blocks it (they have updated their security policy to block any unverified addons). I think if you do a poll, my suspicion is that most people will find duplication unnecessary. If 99% of people (I just made it up-- but you can ask researchers at your school) finds duplication a waste of energy, why not figured out a way to prevent it from happening once for all?
For the second request, imagine that I have 1000 collections, zotero would lock the screen to the first folder (alphabetically) so I wouldn't be able to see any other folders if they are not showing within this one screen.
Any suggestions? thanks a lot!
I don't have much else on the collections. I think displaying them in the right-hand panel is generally planned, but I wouldn't expect that super soon.
First, know that _everything_ in Medline is also in PubMed but PubMed has many records that are not in Medline. If you pull records from both you will have duplicates of each record you retrieved from Medline. Note also that, for some topics, you must take great care in selecting the index terms and text-words you use in your search. Any search of PubMed that doesn't also include text-words is certain to omit relevant records. (The articles that aren't in Medline do not have MeSH terms assigned and although there is an algorithm that can helpfully map MeSH terms to text-words it is imperfect.
If you will look closely at the records imported from different databases there will be differences in the completeness and the character of the references depending upon the database. Unless you examine each duplicate item by item you will not know the most complete record. Some databases provide only author initials and not the full name. Others, don't provide the DOI. Some databases delineate title from subtitle with some sort of punctuation while others do not. Some databases, most notably Web of Knowledge / (Social) Science Citation Index, actually make additions to the punctuation and even the spelling of title words "Traumatic Brain Injuries" becomes "Traumatic Brain-Injury" or "Traumatic-Brain Injury". Prepositions are changed. Articles are changed. These changes are nihilartikel or Mountweazel entries to alert the database management that identical items in another database are captured or plagiarized from the parent database. This makes duplicate-finding more complicated. This also complicates using _all_ bibliography management software because the citation can have subtle inaccuracies. At one time the database record for some journal articles added or subtracted a page from the listed pagination.
Also know that databases and journal publishers differ in how they treat letters to the editor and corrections that concern an article. You will want to identify these adjuncts to the articles that meet your inclusion criteria. Some of these can show up as duplicates other times they may not be found at all. Quite a few times in reviewing manuscripts I have pointed out that a cited article had a table that was corrected in a later issue and one time that the article had been withdrawn.