Upgrade StorageZotero Standalone 4.0.29.15 problem swapping citations (Mac)
Hello,
When I use the citation function from the black ribbon in Word, start to enter a word then realised I forgot the name of author and look it up on internet, then come back to Word the Zotero bar has disappeared and an empty 'citation' zone is in my footnote.
I delete that empty zone and when I try again to enter a citation, Zotero then gives me an error. My footnote still appears empty BUT the following footnote's citation has been swapped for the one I just in putted.
The error:
Zotero experienced an error updating your document.
Document modified during update @[setCode:field.m:585]
I thought that it was worth mentioning as other writers such as myself might be in trouble if they don't notice their footnote has changed.
Strangely enough pressing Ctrl-Z did not solve the problem for me - the footnote did not return to previous citation.
Sometimes I got a follow up error a second time, same text.
I use a Mac, my word is version 14.6.7.
Thank you
Snowva
When I use the citation function from the black ribbon in Word, start to enter a word then realised I forgot the name of author and look it up on internet, then come back to Word the Zotero bar has disappeared and an empty 'citation' zone is in my footnote.
I delete that empty zone and when I try again to enter a citation, Zotero then gives me an error. My footnote still appears empty BUT the following footnote's citation has been swapped for the one I just in putted.
The error:
Zotero experienced an error updating your document.
Document modified during update @[setCode:field.m:585]
I thought that it was worth mentioning as other writers such as myself might be in trouble if they don't notice their footnote has changed.
Strangely enough pressing Ctrl-Z did not solve the problem for me - the footnote did not return to previous citation.
Sometimes I got a follow up error a second time, same text.
I use a Mac, my word is version 14.6.7.
Thank you
Snowva
Secondly, you might want to try pressing Ctrl-Z/Cmd-Z multiple times (if you still have the document open). At the moment Zotero insertions into documents actually take multiple "Word steps", so you have to Cmd-Z multiple times. This is also something that we'll hopefully address soon.
Otherwise, your best bet is to work from a back-up document. If you don't have one, you should look into the debugging broken documents section in our support pages. In this particular case switching to a citation style that does not use footnotes might help. Before attempting any of this, make sure you have a back-up of the current broken document (and make back-ups once you fix it!)