Attached PDFs stopped displaying within Firefox (see code characters)
I upgraded to 1.5 Beta from working installations on: (1) my Mac and (2) on a Portable Firefox Windows installation running from a USB drive.
All was fine on the Mac after the upgrade; all was also fine on the Portable Firefox USB installation at first.
Then I copied the Portable Firefox Windows installation from the USB drive onto the main drive of a Windows computer. I repeated the set up steps, using "Restore from the Zotero server" to bring in the data. The library looks OK in the Zotero panel, citations intact, but if I attempt to open attached PDFs, I get a page of text in Firefox that looks like the PDF code. The PDFs themselves are OK in the Storage folder: I can navigate to the new storage and find a PDF there and open it OK in Acrobat.
At some stage in trying to also 'restore' my USB Portable Firefox, that copy also started exhibiting this behavior.
All is still OK with the non-portable installation on the Mac: it is syncing and attached PDFs display OK.
Any suggestions of how I can fix this? Anyone else having this problem?
All was fine on the Mac after the upgrade; all was also fine on the Portable Firefox USB installation at first.
Then I copied the Portable Firefox Windows installation from the USB drive onto the main drive of a Windows computer. I repeated the set up steps, using "Restore from the Zotero server" to bring in the data. The library looks OK in the Zotero panel, citations intact, but if I attempt to open attached PDFs, I get a page of text in Firefox that looks like the PDF code. The PDFs themselves are OK in the Storage folder: I can navigate to the new storage and find a PDF there and open it OK in Acrobat.
At some stage in trying to also 'restore' my USB Portable Firefox, that copy also started exhibiting this behavior.
All is still OK with the non-portable installation on the Mac: it is syncing and attached PDFs display OK.
Any suggestions of how I can fix this? Anyone else having this problem?
Instead, I get computer code filling the browser window. If I click "Show File" and open the PDF from inside storage it looks OK in Adobe Acrobat. On the Mac version on another computer the PDFs look OK. I only see this on the Windows Firefox portable version: the same installation works OK viewing ordinary PDFs I follow links to on the web.
I generated a report ID 67848600 for this.
And have you tried anything recommended in:
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/2241/
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/2574/
Thank you, but those discussions seem to be about something different from my problem.
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Then I installed the beta plugin and pointed Zotero to a copy of this old Zotero folder: Zotero updated it, backed up the documents to my WebDAV server, and successfully negotiated several syncs with new citations/documents. This beta installation worked fine.
Then I successfully 'restored' this data to my Mac, by reseting that installation to download all data from server. That installation worked fine.
Problems began when I tried to rename my Zotero folder in the beta installation on the Windows machine. It had been called something inelegant like 'copy of old Zotero folder to be used to restore beta version' and I wanted a nice name like 'zotero-beta', so I renamed it to that in Windows Explorer.
The next time I opened Zotero it came up with a dialog saying it could not find the zotero folder and offered to let me find it. I did so, pointing to the newly-renamed folder.
I restarted Firefox. Then, opening Zotero, while my citations looked OK, all my PDFs that I tried to view in the browser, using the plugin, showed the raw PDF code again.
I conclude that the corruption, or whatever it was, was somewhere in my Firefox installation, and not in the zotero folder.