App changes names of authors

maelbel · October 15, 2021

Hello,

The app (5.0.97-beta.49+9432cb7e7, macOS Big Sur 11.6) has been recently behaving erratically. I was manually filling in missing bibliographical data, when I noticed the following thing: Several times the app copied the name of the author I had just inserted, and pasted it to the previous entry (replacing the name I had inserted a few minutes earlier). It seems to happen quite randomly (1-2 times out of 10 cases), but practically during every session – even after I restart the app. Sometimes, it also switches back "Editors" to "Authors".

Any idea, what might be wrong? I have quite a big library, migrated from Bookends. Please advise. – D2124841208

Kind regards,

Martin

adamsmith · October 16, 2021

If this all happens in the same document, this sounds like corrupted document (Zotero) data, not a problem with Zotero more generally.

maelbel · October 16, 2021

It happened to many documents. Forgot to mention: all of them had PDF attachments.

adamsmith · October 16, 2021

I don't mean the items you're citing, I mean to document you're inserting the citations into

maelbel · October 16, 2021

I might be using wrong terms or expressions. Sorry for that. What I mean is: I was working with Zotero only, organising and updating the library. I had to manually insert missing info (metadata?) like authors, year, etc. as most of those entries contained only the title.

adamsmith · October 16, 2021

Oh got it,. sorry, now I understand the issue. dstillman will need to look at that. Does the debug ID you posted actually cover that happening?

maelbel · October 16, 2021

Yes, it does. Thanks a lot! Take care!

dstillman · October 16, 2021

@maelbel: Can you take a screen recording of this happening (using the Screenshot tool built into macOS), upload it somewhere (e.g., Dropbox or Google Drive), and provide a link here?

maelbel · October 17, 2021

Hi, here it is. Hope it works:

https://upolomouc-my.sharepoint.com/:v:/g/personal/elbel_upol_cz/Edfa_7tnfJlEl1_zedV1ansBHtVEVxe0ROm0bGsF3U0bTA?e=HtFb2x

At 1:12 I start working on the item Natural Disasters... (note the entry: Chodějovská | 2020 | Krajina). When I finish (at 2:46) the name of Chodějovská has been replaced with Mauch. It seems the error is triggered only when I change "Authors" to "Editors".

Here's debug D913547038

Thanks a lot!

dstillman · October 26, 2021

This is fixed in the latest beta.