Can't even import one item

octavabasso
I'm trying to move from Endnote to Zotero. I've had many problems importing Bibtex items into Z, and have worked around it by breaking the files up into smaller ones. I have been able to import maybe 75% of my 3000 item library into Z, and I have saved the txt files that have returned errors. Now, I'm going through those txt files and trying to import the items one-by-one. It just freezes. Here's my latest attempt:

TY - JOUR

AU - Jameson, Frederic

PY - 1993

TI - On 'Cultural studies'

SP - 17-52

JF - Social Text

VL - 34

N1 - On 'Cultural studies'

N1 - Home Library. Articles.

KW - Cult 802

ID - 1000

ER -

I'm using Ubuntu 8.10, Firefox 3, and Z 1.5b2 on an AMD 64 machine.
  • octavabasso
    edited March 29, 2009
    I should note that the original file does not have the extra spaces you see here, and that this process does not return an error message; rather, Firefox simply freezes at the point when I select the txt file to import.
  • bdarcus
    edited March 29, 2009
    So wrapping the example in a code block, is this exactly what it looks like?

    TY - JOUR
    AU - Jameson, Frederic
    PY - 1993
    TI - On 'Cultural studies'
    SP - 17-52
    JF - Social Text
    VL - 34
    N1 - On 'Cultural studies'
    N1 - Home Library. Articles.
    KW - Cult 802
    ID - 1000
    ER -

    If yes, note that there's supposed to be two spaces after the key. Also, there needs to be a line-break after the ER tag.

    Check those two issues and report back.

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