Suspected bug that easily leads to delete a collection - no prompt appears when hitting del

triggerdog

Normally, when you hit delete and the cursor is selecting a collection there should be a prompt. However, I have repeatedly ended up deleting collections recently and there has been no prompt asking me to confirm. It usually happens after I add a new paper to my library and then notice I already have it.

I will click the collection I want to add the paper to and then through the chrome addon add the paper. I then alt-tab back into zotero and if I remember correctly left-click to selected the newly added paper (to delete it). But when I hit delete it just deletes the collection I had selected to add to, and a prompt has now not appeared twice just flat out deleting the collection. This has happened twice in the last week and it is incredibly frustrating.

dstillman

I'm not seeing that, and it shouldn't be possible given how the code works. Can you reproduce this reliably? If so, can you provide exact steps?

triggerdog

I went to try to recreate the bug but I don't seem to be able to when I try to mimic what I did yesterday, for both the collection and an individual article it's prompting me when I hit the del key.

My original post details the steps I did to have this happen yesterday as well as I could remember them. I tried to duplicate that now but didn't have it re-occur.

All I know is I've deleted two collections this way and there was certainly no prompt. The latter case it happened I had to recover my library.