Trouble moving items between collections
I use Zotero standalone (I always update). I'm having a lot of difficulty moving items from one collection to another (using drag-and-drop). Sometimes it's fine, in fact I don't think I've ever had trouble moving an item from the Unfiled folder into a collection. But when I try to copy/move an item between collections, often the item simply doesn't copy over. Also, sometimes in the process of trying to move it, a collection (or several!) will inexplicably move inside another collection , and pulling it back out is as difficult as getting a single item to move. As a result I've often spent a good ten minutes to copy a single item into the correct folder and fix the damage to the collection structure. I wish one could simply right-click an item and select the collection from there!
I want to mention that this is also an ergonomic issue. Holding the mouse button and moving the mouse around puts considerable strain on the arm nerves, exacerbating a problem I already have. My arm actually hurts from all of this.
Thanks!
I want to mention that this is also an ergonomic issue. Holding the mouse button and moving the mouse around puts considerable strain on the arm nerves, exacerbating a problem I already have. My arm actually hurts from all of this.
Thanks!
Has this issue been resolved? I don't know how to generate a bug report when I'm not getting any errors because I'm not getting any response at all. (Does that make sense? It's not that I am given an error report because the drag-and-drop feature is broken, it's rather that the feature is simply dead in my standalone, as if it never existed at all.)
Thanks.
Windows 7 Professional, Zotero Standalone 4.0.17, Chrome 31.0.1650.63 m
Thanks for a great piece of software.
Not sure what you mean by the collection disappearing, but when you drag onto a collection it should highlight it. When it does not it's because the item already exists in that collection, so dropping there has no effect.
And yes, the "highlighting" does take some time to appear in some cases (one way I can reproduce is: first try to drag an existing item to a collection, then try to drag a new item), but that doesn't seem to affect actual drag-drop behavior in my case.
My installation works well before but today I cannot drag and drop anymore. the pointer no longer changes when I start dragging and nothing happens when I drop them.