"Word cannot communicate with Zotero" error

After trying the following things, I am still getting the same error message when I attempt to add a citation. Any advice is appreciated.

1.) Checked that the Word for Mac extension in Zotero is enabled.
2.) Updated Word to Version 16.16.14
3.) Zotero is version 5.0.74.
4.) Disabled Malwarebytes.
5.) Reinstalled Word components in the "Cite" tab of the Zotero preferences.
  • Can you provide a Report ID?
  • Report ID: 1342195161
  • I'm not sure what would cause this on a Mac with the Word extension enabled in Zotero, but @adomasven might have an idea.

    Are you not able to upgrade from 10.13 to 10.14 on your current hardware? While Zotero obviously ran on 10.13, we haven't tested it with that in a while. I would expect many more reports if this were a general problem with 10.13, though.
  • adomasven Zotero Team
    edited October 1, 2019
    @bmw255 This might be obvious but have you tried restarting Zotero. Otherwise, could you start Zotero, open the terminal (under Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app), paste in

    ls -a /Users/[YOUR-USERNAME]/Library/Containers/com.microsoft.Word/Data/.zoteroIntegrationPipe

    press Enter and paste the output here? Note that you will have to replace [YOUR-USERNAME] with your username in the text above.

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