Upgrade StorageQuick format bar returns irrelevant items
Apology if I'm posting this in the wrong place. Could not find a relevant thread.
Since I upgraded to Zotero version 5.0 (I'm now on 5.0.33), I'm quite often getting irrelevant results from searches while working in MS Word and using the red-framed Quick Format bar. (Apologies too, if I'm not using the correct technical terminology.) Often when I type in an author's name, Zotero offers me references by a whole lot of authors with different names. For example, I wanted to cite a work by Bennett. When I entered that name in the Quick Format bar, Zotero responded by offering me a slew of 35 references by authors whose names start with B, beginning at Bea, so I had to scroll down until Bennett appeared.
Trouble is, when I tried to replicate this so as to log the error, Bennett popped up immediately. However, here are two examples; the first a search for Kotei, and the second, two searches for Amartya Sen (ignore first attempt, which was not clever, and unsatisfactory result was to be expected). The Error ID is D420193375.
It is an intermittent fault, and does not always happen. On a few occasions, observing carefully what happens, I discovered that the reference I need sometimes does appear very quickly at the top of the list, but is then grayed out and disappears almost immediately (before I can grab it), to be replaced by the irrelevant items, so that I have to scroll down to find it. This wastes a lot of time. The search can be refined by adding the date of publication -- if I can remember it.
My Zotero database is approaching 7,000 items, and runs on a Windows 7 laptop.
Question: Is there some setting I should change?
Since I upgraded to Zotero version 5.0 (I'm now on 5.0.33), I'm quite often getting irrelevant results from searches while working in MS Word and using the red-framed Quick Format bar. (Apologies too, if I'm not using the correct technical terminology.) Often when I type in an author's name, Zotero offers me references by a whole lot of authors with different names. For example, I wanted to cite a work by Bennett. When I entered that name in the Quick Format bar, Zotero responded by offering me a slew of 35 references by authors whose names start with B, beginning at Bea, so I had to scroll down until Bennett appeared.
Trouble is, when I tried to replicate this so as to log the error, Bennett popped up immediately. However, here are two examples; the first a search for Kotei, and the second, two searches for Amartya Sen (ignore first attempt, which was not clever, and unsatisfactory result was to be expected). The Error ID is D420193375.
It is an intermittent fault, and does not always happen. On a few occasions, observing carefully what happens, I discovered that the reference I need sometimes does appear very quickly at the top of the list, but is then grayed out and disappears almost immediately (before I can grab it), to be replaced by the irrelevant items, so that I have to scroll down to find it. This wastes a lot of time. The search can be refined by adding the date of publication -- if I can remember it.
My Zotero database is approaching 7,000 items, and runs on a Windows 7 laptop.
Question: Is there some setting I should change?
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/comment/289709/#Comment_289709
TL;DR: in recent versions of the citation bar, messy typing causes non-matches to show up because not the final string but intermediate partial strings are matched.
I do have the same problem as Peter. Searches just show wrong results from "cited" and the one I am looking for somewhere in between or even below the "cited" section if not yet cited in the paper...
Writing and editing a paper has become really a pain at the moment, especially because the search in Word is also so slow and scrolling down makes all results disappear for around 20 or more seconds.
I have all newest versions installed and use Win7/Word 2010.
Thank you for your support.
Dennis
PS: Okay, I see that it doesn't seem to always bring up the wrong search results. Sometimes it seems that spelling the author with a first capital letter and adding a space at the end helps.
PPS: Sometimes, if I delete the last couple of characters and add them again, the search results improve...
Saw your link but wasn't entirely sure...
Seems that the new update mentioned there is not out yet. Hope this also improves performance largely. Even though I very much like Zotero and the good work of the team, it really is more waiting than working at the moment...
Best,
Dennis