[SOLVED] Zotero firefox and standalone conflict - database locked

papnikol
SOLVED, see later post

Hi everyone
I have Zotero standalone installed along with the Firefox version. When I run each one seperatlly everything is OK. But if standalone
is open the firefox version shows the following notification:

Your Zotero database is currently in use. Only one instance of Zotero using the same database may be opened simultaneously at this time. If Zotero Standalone is open, please close it and restart Firefox.

Both versions use the same Zotero directory but i know this is supposed to be OK.

I tried rebooting and also reinstalling everything, as suggested by similar posts but to no avail. Do you have any input?

Thanks in advance.
  • adamsmith
    which versions of each?
  • papnikol
    The latest - 4.0.17 for the standalone and 4.0.17.1 for Firefox

    I should also mention that i am using windows 8.1 64
  • adamsmith
    I don't think you should be getting that error message - Zotero should just jump to Standalone when that's open, but it's behaving correctly in that it's not possible to open Zotero for Firefox and Zotero Standalone at the same time.
  • papnikol
    I know, because I have it setup in 2 other PCs exactly the same way but it works. I don't know if it is a windows 8.1 problem.

    Btw, I tried having 2 seperate data directories and I obviously dont get the message but when I save to zotero, it is saved to firefox --> Web --> standalone. This takes sometime and, naturally, until this happens, I cannot use the citation from the standalone
  • papnikol
    edited February 5, 2014
    [SOLVED]

    By mere luck, i found the culprit. For some reason, it is the firewall. My rules allowed only outgoing connections, if I enable all, it works. I really do not know why, but it works.

    Thanks for your efforts adamsmith
  • dstillman
    You don't need to enable all connections, but you do need to allow all traffic to/from 127.0.0.1 (which should be the default in all firewalls, but possibly isn't in some badly behaved ones).

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