[5.0 Beta] Relations disappearing

dstillman

This discussion was created from comments split from: Zotero 5.0 Beta.

micha

Until today, I did not encounter any problems with beta 5. Today, however, I found something strange: Newly inserted cross-links between entries tend to disappear mysteriously after a few seconds (If I link entry A to entry B, the link appears in B and then often vanishes. Sometimes it vanishes only in B, sometimes even in A) (version: 5.0-beta.177+d8fed09 on Linux).

dstillman

Can you provide a Report ID for after this occurs?

Do you see them after restarting Zotero?

micha

I could reproduce the problem after restart. However, (ID 1819279997) claims that nothing is wrong, maybe there is something useful in (D1209485949).

I still fail to see when exactly the problem occurs, I cannot find any pattern up to now.

dstillman

I assume this goes away if you disable auto-sync? Does it then happen when you sync manually?

micha

The problem also occurs after manual sync.

I just did a test (see D778066731):

1. disable auto-sync.
2. insert into entry A relations to entries B, C, D
3. check whether relations remain stable and are shown also in B, C, D (they did!)
4. sync manually
5. check whether relations are still stable
6. --> find out that relations in B, C, D are in fact gone.

micha

Just as an update: Problems with relations still remain in
5.0-beta.184+d527c34
E.g., after deleting in entry A a relation between entries A and B, the relation still shows up in entry B (before and after sync).
(Clicking on the relation in B does not have any effect, though.)

dstillman

OK, try in 188 and see if you still run into problems.

micha

So far, everything seems to work just fine. Thank you so much!