Upgrade Storage"you have modified this citation" problem
Hi,
I am working on a book manuscript of 385 pages in length, where all the footnotes have been inserted via zotero. I use a Mac running OS 10.8.5 using Firefox 27.0 and zotero within Firefox.
Today I was adding a new citation using zotero and received a problematic message, saying "You have modified this citation..." (there is a screen shot of this message, and the error message that arose right afterward, in dropbox - here is a link):
https://www.dropbox.com/s/2nfdkaugu0m0pit/Screen%20Shot%202014-02-06%20at%2011.06.28%20AM.png
Here is what happened. I had just added a source to Zotero. I had inserted a citation (using the zotero Word plugin, as usual) to that source on p. 158 of my manuscript. I was then in the process of adding a second citation to that source, also on p. 158, when I got that "You have modified" message. The weird thing is that along with the "You have modified" message, the word file of my manuscript jumped to p. 267. No footnote was highlighted on that page (that I could see). I did not know whether to click "Yes" or "No" (because I had no idea which footnote the message was referring to, and I didn't want a random footnote to be altered without my knowledge or ability to fix it). Within about a minute (while I took a screen shot of the "You have modified" message, I got an error message (see the screen shot).
This "You have modified" problem has happened before - and when it does, I have always quit out of Word, not knowing what changes would occur if I clicked either Yes or No.
Today, before adding that source to Zotero, I had made some minor modifications to other footnotes (on p. 1 of the document; I had not made any manual changes to p. 158 or to p.267). I was doing this (rather than changing the existing zotero citations using the Word plugin) because at this point the document is so long that it takes zotero at least 2 minutes to insert a citation or alter one. (I was also doing it manually because I have to go in and transliterate some source titles in the footnotes from cyrillic font to the latin alphabet - and I don't want to change them from cyrillic to latin in the zotero database. But that is another story.)
I don't know whether making manual modifications to footnotes generated by zotero is what has triggered this problem, but at this point, there are at least a handful of footnotes throughout the document that I have modified slightly. I'm not sure which ones they are. I would like to be able to continue adding sources and citations using zotero, rather than just entering the remaining sources and citations manually, but first I would need to find a way to disable Zotero's query about modifying my citations (because I don't want any of them modified, other than the ones I'm choosing to modify at the moment!).
I would appreciate any advice you have. Thanks! valerie
I am working on a book manuscript of 385 pages in length, where all the footnotes have been inserted via zotero. I use a Mac running OS 10.8.5 using Firefox 27.0 and zotero within Firefox.
Today I was adding a new citation using zotero and received a problematic message, saying "You have modified this citation..." (there is a screen shot of this message, and the error message that arose right afterward, in dropbox - here is a link):
https://www.dropbox.com/s/2nfdkaugu0m0pit/Screen%20Shot%202014-02-06%20at%2011.06.28%20AM.png
Here is what happened. I had just added a source to Zotero. I had inserted a citation (using the zotero Word plugin, as usual) to that source on p. 158 of my manuscript. I was then in the process of adding a second citation to that source, also on p. 158, when I got that "You have modified" message. The weird thing is that along with the "You have modified" message, the word file of my manuscript jumped to p. 267. No footnote was highlighted on that page (that I could see). I did not know whether to click "Yes" or "No" (because I had no idea which footnote the message was referring to, and I didn't want a random footnote to be altered without my knowledge or ability to fix it). Within about a minute (while I took a screen shot of the "You have modified" message, I got an error message (see the screen shot).
This "You have modified" problem has happened before - and when it does, I have always quit out of Word, not knowing what changes would occur if I clicked either Yes or No.
Today, before adding that source to Zotero, I had made some minor modifications to other footnotes (on p. 1 of the document; I had not made any manual changes to p. 158 or to p.267). I was doing this (rather than changing the existing zotero citations using the Word plugin) because at this point the document is so long that it takes zotero at least 2 minutes to insert a citation or alter one. (I was also doing it manually because I have to go in and transliterate some source titles in the footnotes from cyrillic font to the latin alphabet - and I don't want to change them from cyrillic to latin in the zotero database. But that is another story.)
I don't know whether making manual modifications to footnotes generated by zotero is what has triggered this problem, but at this point, there are at least a handful of footnotes throughout the document that I have modified slightly. I'm not sure which ones they are. I would like to be able to continue adding sources and citations using zotero, rather than just entering the remaining sources and citations manually, but first I would need to find a way to disable Zotero's query about modifying my citations (because I don't want any of them modified, other than the ones I'm choosing to modify at the moment!).
I would appreciate any advice you have. Thanks! valerie
If you want to keep your modifications, just click yes when that message comes up. You can't disable it because Zotero needs to know what to do.
I added a footnote (using the Word plugin) and clicked "yes" when that "you have modified" message came up. It then took about 3 minutes to process -- and during that time, a box flashed on and off on the screen saying something like "Word is converting zotero50jdt.rtf" [that is approximate - but the "rtf" part is right] and then it said it was repaginating that rtf file. (At the bottom of my manuscript it said it was repaginating the Word document, as it usually does when adding a footnote.) Is this rtf message anything to be concerned about, or is it just the way that zotero indicates to itself that a footnote has been manually modified and is not to be further disturbed?