Upgrade StorageZotero keeps modifying citations
Hi, I need your help with a problem and would really appreciate if you could help me figure out what I am doing wrong or what I need to do differently. When I make new entries, or make changes to existing ones, Zotero keeps going over the other citations and keeps asking:
"You have modified this citation since Zotero generated it. Do you want to keep your modifications and prevent future updates?
Clicking "yes" will prevent Zotero from updating this citation if you add additional citations, switch styles, or modify the item to which it refers. Clicking "no" will erase your changes."
I click "yes" in order not to lose my most up-to-date entries, but then Zotero keeps asking this question for other entries.
I have a 56-second video of one of the times it happened. I cannot continue working on the document because sooner or later, I keep getting these messages. Please help me figure out how to handle this situation without losing the information I've already entered in the document.
Thank you very much!
"You have modified this citation since Zotero generated it. Do you want to keep your modifications and prevent future updates?
Clicking "yes" will prevent Zotero from updating this citation if you add additional citations, switch styles, or modify the item to which it refers. Clicking "no" will erase your changes."
I click "yes" in order not to lose my most up-to-date entries, but then Zotero keeps asking this question for other entries.
I have a 56-second video of one of the times it happened. I cannot continue working on the document because sooner or later, I keep getting these messages. Please help me figure out how to handle this situation without losing the information I've already entered in the document.
Thank you very much!
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Are you manually changing citations (i.e. changing them in Word rather than changing the citation style or the underlying data in Zotero)?
I am not changing them manually--I use the Zotero add in to make changes.
Under Set Document Preferences in the Word add-on, what exactly are your settings?
Could you try running through steps 2-6 here: https://www.zotero.org/support/word_processor_plugin_troubleshooting#debugging_broken_documents (we've checked 1 and the last steps are a lot more time consuming)
The settings are as follows:
Citation Style: Chicago Manual of Style 16th Edition (author-date)
Language: English
Format Using: Fields is highlighted
Store references in document is marked
I've deleted the citations that Zotero changed as I described above, and entered them correctly from my library, along with page numbers and prefixes/suffixes. It was time consuming, but at least Zotero stopped doing it. I'll start working on a new document that has multiple Zotero entries already. If the same problem occurs, I'll then try the steps in the link and update you.
Thank you!
Here I am with the same problem: I entered sources using Zotero into a document. All was fine until my colleagues made new additions to the document and added some new sources (using Zotero). Once I got the document back from my colleagues and wanted to make some more changes, I kept receiving the same message (see below), and clicked on "yes." Zotero kept on asking and asking. In the end, some of the earlier sources I added had missing page numbers, or their author information was replaced with article title, or some prefixes were gone, or some citations that I edited using "show editor" went back to their initial format. We're all using the Chicago Author-Date format, but for some reason, Zotero starts going through the whole document and making some kind of change to almost all the citations. Any help would be appreciated. Let me note, we are not using track changes, or manually entering sources. In the same document, there are also citations that were entered using Mendeley. My colleague suggested that it may be a Zotero-Mendeley clash. We are not sure how there would be clash between these two though.
*The message is: You have modified this citation since Zotero generated it. Do you want to keep your modifications and prevent future updates?
Clicking "yes" will prevent Zotero from updating this citation if you add additional citations, switch styles, or modify the item to which it refers. Clicking "no" will erase your changes."
Thank you!
Note that what you're doing to generate author (year) citations isn't recommended:
https://www.zotero.org/support/word_processor_plugin_usage#customizing_cites
When I need to modify a citation in a word document for Chicago author-date style, I click inside the citation-->add/edit citation-->then add page number or surpress author (for example)-->click okay.
I am not editing the citations inside the word document. However, sometimes I get this message:
*The message is: You have modified this citation since Zotero generated it. Do you want to keep your modifications and prevent future updates?
Clicking "yes" will prevent Zotero from updating this citation if you add additional citations, switch styles, or modify the item to which it refers. Clicking "no" will erase your changes."
I have clicked no because the changes I made were generated using Zotero (not manually using word) and I want all my citations updated automatically, because I have a lot of documents authored by the same individual.
Was that the correct choice? I am concerned that I have chosen the wrong option and my citations do not reflect the page updates or author edits (for example) that I generated using Zotero.
I would be grateful for any clarification.
Modifying the citation refers to doing so directly in Word or in the editor window of the "classic" citation dialog.
What is the "classic" citation citation dialog? I think I am using the classic editor window of Zotero (https://www.zotero.org/support/word_processor_plugin_usage_classic) because I don't use the little red box to insert things (as shown here https://www.zotero.org/support/word_processor_plugin_usage).
Should I have clicked "Yes" because I use the classic dialogue?