File attachment not included when importing into Zotero from Papers

jasonacollins
I often export from Mekentosj Papers to Zotero using the RIS format (legacy issues). Since the upgrade to Zotero 4.0.4, the pdf attachments have ceased to be imported into Zotero. There are no error signals, and the set of fields for which I get the message "The following values have no corresponding Zotero field:" seems to be the same.

Any suggestions on what has changed and how I can get it working again would be appreciated. Thanks in advance
  • aurimas
    Could you post a sample RIS entry with an attachment that does not import correctly? I am not able to reproduce this problem.

    Also, are you using Zotero Standalone or the Firefox extension? What OS? Are your translators up to date (Preferences... -> General -> Update Now)?
  • jasonacollins
    I'm using Standalone on Mac OSX 10.8.3. I've updated the translators.

    Here's an example RIS that imported the pdf last week with Zotero 3 but that won't work today:

    TY - JOUR
    ID - 2105
    T1 - Demography and Cultural Evolution: How Adaptive Cultural Processes can Produce Maladaptive Losses: The Tasmanian Case
    A1 - Henrich, Joseph
    Y1 - 2004/00/01
    N2 -
    JO - American Antiquity
    VL - 69
    IS - 2
    SP - 197
    EP - 214
    PB - Society for American Archaeology
    UR - http://www.jstor.org/stable/4128416
    L1 - file://localhost/Users/jasonacollins/Library/Application%20Support/Papers2/Articles/2004/Henrich/Henrich2004.pdf
    L3 - papers2://publication/uuid/353D3F0C-0BFB-4C5F-93A7-FD007ABE27A3
    ER -
  • aurimas
    Could you see if replacing "%20" in the file path with a space (" ") fixes this problem.

    Technical note:
    I'm guessing the issue is the encoded space character and this patch, which results in double-encoding. I don't believe that there is anything in the RIS specification about file path encodings, so I'm not sure that what Papers outputs is incorrect. My solution would be to attempt to decode the file path in RIS before encoding it again. I believe this is already done elsewhere in Zotero.
  • jasonacollins
    Yes, putting the space in fixes the problem.
  • aurimas
    Thanks for reporting. This should be fixed shortly. I'll post here when the fix is released.
  • jasonacollins
    Awesome. Thanks.
  • aurimas
    This fix has been delayed until Zotero 4.0.6, which should be coming out soon.

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