Zotero 5.0 and old Zotero folder

SOAS C13

1) Can the old Zotero folder within in the Firefox profile be deleted once the installation of Zotero 5.0 has been completed or is it preferable to change the path of the data directory in Zotero 5.0 to the former location of v. 4.0?

2) In v. 4.0 it was possible to import data from the KVK-metacatalog (https://kvk.bibliothek.kit.edu/index.html?lang=en) to the Zotero-libraries. With the new Zotero Connector this does not work any more in v. 5.0.

adamsmith

(leaving 1 for someone else. Pretty sure the answer is yes, but don't want to say something wrong)

2) KVK doesn't work in 4.0 for me and I'm not sure how it ever could have worked given that the results it displays are all basically just links to other catalogs (most of which, but not all, are supported). Are you sure this worked in the past? Did search results look the same?

dstillman

Can the old Zotero folder within in the Firefox profile be deleted once the installation of Zotero 5.0 has been completed

Generally speaking, there shouldn't be one. Zotero 5.0 migrates your data out of the Zotero or Firefox profile directory to "Zotero" in your home directory when it first starts.

The only time there should be a directory left in one of the profile directories is if 1) Zotero wasn't able to migrate the directory, in which case it'd still be using it or 2) you had two separate data directories (from saying "No" when a previous version of Zotero asked you whether you wanted to share directories between Zotero for Firefox and Zotero Standalone) and it migrated only one of them. (The latest version of Zotero does a better job of choosing the more recent database in that situation.)

SOAS C13

Thank you.
I have to clarify my query about KVK:
When you click on one of the KVK-search results, the record of the selected library catalog appears as subordinate link (e.g. http://kvk.bibliothek.kit.edu/view-title/index.php?katalog=DDB&url=http://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm......), i.e. as frame within the KVK-website. In v. 4.0 this subordinate link was correctly recognised as importable item, while in v. 5.0 it is only identified as "Web Page with Snapshot".

Note that this only applies to the German version of the KVK search mask (https://kvk.bibliothek.kit.edu/index.html). In the English version (https://kvk.bibliothek.kit.edu/index.html?lang=en) the selected results are not displayed as frames within the KVK-website.

adamsmith

Ah I see, yes, that has indeed changed; I was looking at the English version.
@adomasven thoughts on how to handle those embedded iframes?

adomasven

No solution at the moment, aside from opening the frame manually, because running detection in frames within new extension framework is very costly in terms of performance and there's little we can do to reduce the impact. When the solution comes, it might require meta tags to be inserted by library maintainers that display translatable content in frames.

adomasven

In the latest version of the connector (5.0.18) detect automatically runs on the first frame on the page if the top frame does not have any compatible translators, which will hopefully address most of these.