Upgrade Storage"Ghost" references in document
Hi
A few weeks ago I posted some problems I have had with zotero (https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/79743/constant-problems-with-sync-duplicating-collections-and-deleting-articles)
I am writing a big literature review with more than 300 references (and those have multiple in-text citations) and it appears that the unfortunate loss and re-storing I had to do, somehow 'unlinked' the vast majority of those citation in that document with my zotero library.
The problem is that when I change the references in my zotero library (e.g. If I find a problem in the journal name etc) this does not update in the document, because effectively the reference in the document is an old, missing reference.
I can actually find out which citations are ghosts because when I click the reference in the zotero dialog to edit the citation, it is missing the author name (e.g. https://imgur.com/a/i7f6Mvz)
My question: is there an easy way to mass-replace an old, ghost reference in the document with the proper one in my zotero library, or do I have to painstakingly go through the 100 pages manualy checking and fixing each citation?
Thank you
A few weeks ago I posted some problems I have had with zotero (https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/79743/constant-problems-with-sync-duplicating-collections-and-deleting-articles)
I am writing a big literature review with more than 300 references (and those have multiple in-text citations) and it appears that the unfortunate loss and re-storing I had to do, somehow 'unlinked' the vast majority of those citation in that document with my zotero library.
The problem is that when I change the references in my zotero library (e.g. If I find a problem in the journal name etc) this does not update in the document, because effectively the reference in the document is an old, missing reference.
I can actually find out which citations are ghosts because when I click the reference in the zotero dialog to edit the citation, it is missing the author name (e.g. https://imgur.com/a/i7f6Mvz)
My question: is there an easy way to mass-replace an old, ghost reference in the document with the proper one in my zotero library, or do I have to painstakingly go through the 100 pages manualy checking and fixing each citation?
Thank you
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adamsmithI'm afraid not, no, Zotero has no lookup function for similar metadata from Word documents.
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MavropaliasGThank you @adamsmith , is there a way to see how many are broken, or highlight which ones?