Zotero resyncing entire library repeatedly - Win 7 and Mac OS Standalone
I currently use Zotero standalone for Windows 7 and Mac OS 10.10 Yosemite, and use Box for my attached items via WebDAV.
Everything seems to work quite well, but there's one thing that I had a question about.
It seems that every time I switch devices when using Zotero (i.e. if I've been using it on Mac, then close that instance and open it on my Windows machine at home) it re-syncs the ENTIRE library of items. It will then do this AGAIN once I close it on that machine and open it on the other. If I use it repeatedly on the same OS it does NOT do this each time I open the program.
Is this normal behaviour? It hasn't resulted in any item losses or other problems, and it doesn't take more than about 5-10 minutes each time it happens, so it's not a huge problem but I was curious. Could it just be an artifact of the way Mac OS and Windows handle the folders and files?
Thanks!
Everything seems to work quite well, but there's one thing that I had a question about.
It seems that every time I switch devices when using Zotero (i.e. if I've been using it on Mac, then close that instance and open it on my Windows machine at home) it re-syncs the ENTIRE library of items. It will then do this AGAIN once I close it on that machine and open it on the other. If I use it repeatedly on the same OS it does NOT do this each time I open the program.
Is this normal behaviour? It hasn't resulted in any item losses or other problems, and it doesn't take more than about 5-10 minutes each time it happens, so it's not a huge problem but I was curious. Could it just be an artifact of the way Mac OS and Windows handle the folders and files?
Thanks!
The program does not seem to be downloading anything, just checking as you suggested. The "size" to be downloaded stays at zero for the entire process. But it does go through every one of the files and I thought this was a bit odd.
@aurimas
To the best of my knowledge the date and time settings are correct on both machines, but I will double check later today.
Debug ID: D520129901
This captures part of this "resync" activity. If I had let it go from start to finish there would have been more than a hundred thousand lines to the debug, so I just took a sample of it. Hope that's OK.
Thanks!
Nick
(It's also remotely possible that the files do exist but Box is claiming they don't. You can search for " 404" in the debug output to find many examples.)
That makes a lot of sense. I lost many of my attachments several months ago due to a stupid mistake I made, so there are many links to files which no longer exist, which of course would have been synced.
Thanks for your help.