Importing/Exporting problems
Trying to transfer libraries between my laptop (Ubuntu 6.06) and desktop (Mac 10.4.8). When I attempt to import the file My Library.rdf I get the following error:
An error occurred while trying to import the selected file. Please ensure that the file is valid and try again.
I have received this error going in both directions. (laptop->desktop & desktop->laptop).
An error occurred while trying to import the selected file. Please ensure that the file is valid and try again.
I have received this error going in both directions. (laptop->desktop & desktop->laptop).
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Any clues what to do differently?
exporting from the windows desktop at work i got the written error message while importing on ubuntu 6.06 at home.
i figured out that in one case there's a problem that attached filenames are changed when unusual charcters like ä or something like that occur in the filenames. It was because of my linuxsystem didn't understood the character in the windowsgiven format, after changing it manually in the files-directory of the to be imported file on ubuntu it worked fine for that one.
BUT there are other files i couldn't tell the cause of the error. For that ones it also failed to reimport the exported files on the windows desktop itself. while searching within the rdf-file i figured out that some fields for authornames and stuff weren't exportet. But as i don't know the syntax of the used markup-language i don't know wether the error is related to this.
this one really sucks when one is trying to move huge amounts of entries. first to figure out what's missing or for what cases the error occured is painful and not to speek of reenter them manually.
this is what errorconsole puts out
Zotero_Ingester_Interface.browserData has no properties
chrome://zotero/content/inqester/browser.js line 316
it also seems to sometimes work for some of the entries and some later time don't work for the same entries but work for other and sometimes work for none
If I can do anything else to track this down, let me know -- it's really holding up my work.
More errors may show up in the Error Console now, however (whereas before they only showed up in debug console output). Try following the steps in the Advanced Instructions section of the Reporting Bugs page and let us know if any errors show up. Also be sure to tell us what export format you're using.
Note that heisthere's error above (the Zotero_Ingester_Interface.browserData one) was unrelated.
An error occurred while trying to import the selected file. Please ensure that the file is valid and try again.<<
I have this problem trying to export my library to Zotero RDF, "An error occurred while trying to export the selected file." I even tried it without notes or files and still no dice. I need to export so I can import onto my new laptop. I really don't want to have to go and download all my pdfs again, make new snapshots, notes, etc. I have hundreds of records! Help!
ransomca is going Linux->Mac.
grzes was going Mac->Windows & you advised him to just wait on the import longer (I mentioned the possibility of just moving the database file over, but with a disclaimer).
I think when I did that before to copy my collection to my work computer that I was able to copy the files fine but Zotero wouldn't recognize that I had any files there because it wanted to assign new numbers to them. I don't know if this has been fixed or I was doing something wrong before. And that was from Windows XP to Windows XP, I want to go from Windows to Mac. Actually I'm transferring everything to Firefox portable so I can take it with me and be OS and computer independent.
UPDATE: Okay I just replaced the contents of the zotero folder with my zotero contents and voila! It worked. Now the only problem is my 500-MB flash drive, of which 441 MB is my zotero library. Let's hope my library does not expand faster than my flash drive. I've been struggling with this all day and finally! Yay!
SQLite databases should be completely cross-platform compatible. The only potential issue would be with attachments. Attachments stored within the Zotero data directory should work fine cross-platform, but linked files won't work, since absolute file locations are stored differently on different platforms. We'll be switching the paths to at least be human-readable in the database on all platforms (they're currently in a weird format on Macs), which would allow for manual batch editing with the SQLite command-line client when switching platforms. For people that have many linked files who don't want to convert the linked files to imported files and don't want to use the SQLite client, import/export probably is the best approach.
I've the same problem, but it seems it's something related with the development for Linux.
Trying to export on FireFox (Linux), gives the error. On Windows, doing on FireFox (Windows) works well.
Any idea?
Regards
Ricardo