Zotero Version 6.0.1 Not Opening

Aisha1208

I downloaded the latest version of Zotero this morning (Version 6.0.1) and now Zotero won't open. I'm receiving the below error message. Is anyone able to assist please?

There was an error starting Zotero.

You can report this problem in the Zotero Forums.

Error: cleanDOI: argument must be a string
cleanDOI@chrome://zotero/content/xpcom/utilities/utilities.js:407:15
_cacheKeyMappings@chrome://zotero/content/xpcom/retractions.js:773:21
From previous event:
ZoteroService@file:///C:/Program%20Files%20(x86)/Zotero/components/zotero-service.js:346:7
@chrome://zotero/content/include.js:4:14

dstillman

Can you go to Tools → Developer → Run JavaScript, run this code, and let us know the result?

var doiFieldID = Zotero.ItemFields.getID('DOI');
var extraFieldID = Zotero.ItemFields.getID('extra');

var sql = "SELECT itemID AS id, fieldID, value FROM itemData "
+ "JOIN itemDataValues USING (valueID) WHERE fieldID IN (?, ?)";
var rows = await Zotero.DB.queryAsync(
sql,
[
doiFieldID,
extraFieldID
]
);

for (let row of rows) {
if (row.fieldID == doiFieldID) {
let value;
try {
value = Zotero.Utilities.cleanDOI(row.value);
}
catch (e) {
return `Value: ${row.value}`;
}
}
}

Aisha1208

Hi, the result is Value: 0

dstillman

OK, thanks — we'll have a fix out shortly. Stay tuned.

dstillman

@Aisha1208: As a temporary fix, open the Zotero preferences, go to the Advanced, click on Config Editor, and set extensions.zotero.retractions.enabled to false.

That will temporarily disable retracted-item checking but will fix this. We'll let you know when you can turn that back on.

dstillman

@Aisha1208: Also, have you used any sort of plugins that change the DOI field of items?

Aisha1208

Amazing, thanks so much!! The temporary fix worked. Re plugins, no I don't think so (I only have the scite Plugin, Word integration and LibreOffice integration)

josem.dp

I had the same problem after installing the scite Plugin, but it got resolve after the change of the config, thanks!

dstillman

The Scite plugin doesn't look like it makes any changes to Zotero items, so probably not that.

dstillman

Looks like it is the Scite plugin: https://github.com/scitedotai/scite-zotero-plugin/issues/38

josem.dp

After I installed the add-on, I was syncing my library and this came up:

'accessDate' must be in ISO 8601 or UTC 'YYYY-MM-DD[ hh:mm:ss]' format or 'CURRENT_TIMESTAMP' ().

After that, I got the crash.

dstillman

https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/comment/402633/#Comment_402633