Downgrade
I have been waiting in vain for the Word Plugin for 2004 (Mac) and bought the 2008 but unfortunately, it is a Leopard application and I run Tiger. Therefore, I had no other option than to downgrade to 1.0.8 and after downloading that and re-starting Firefox, Z no longer starts and says "Zotero user data DB version is newer than SQL file".
Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can remedy this and return to working on Word 2004 Mac running Tiger or am I screwed and have lost all data?
Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can remedy this and return to working on Word 2004 Mac running Tiger or am I screwed and have lost all data?
Any suggestions?
In the meantime, you could always try OpenOffice 3.0, though you'll need to patch it to fix a bug in OO3.0 on OS X. Details on the Sync Preview page.
Thank you for your help. It is a bit cumbersome to download a third document generation software (I have Word and Pages), plus a patch to fix the bug while waiting for the Tiger compatible plug-in. I have exported my library to Endnote Web in the mean time and will have to work with that till you release the plug-in I need. I will keep an eye out for that and hope to restore Zotero.
Out of curiosity, I seem to be the only one who uses the latest Zotero with OSX 10.4 and Word 04 or am I.....?
Thanks for your suggestion again and Happy Holidays!
If you're exporting anyway, you can certainly just export from 1.5, back up and clear your Zotero data directory, and import into 1.0.8. It's just not a recommended method, and you'll lose any links to references in existing documents, but it should work as well as exporting to anything else.
That is a great suggestion. I backed up my library (exported it to the desktop) and uninstalled Zotero, restarted Firefox and downloaded 1.0.8 but Zotero still tells me that "Zotero user data DB version is newer than SQL file" and won't start up.
What did I miss here? This would be a great solution and I could stay with Z.
Thanks again for the help. My brain is fried and I will definitely give this a shot tomorrow.
RMJ
I finally got to rid my hard drive of all things Zotero and re-installed the new 1.0.9 version. It worked! But it seems like it is just not meant to be as I do not have the styles tab in my preferences and when I go to the styles repository of Zotero, it says that most are only available to those using Sync Preview. I just did a 360 and landed back exactly where I started. And now I don't even have the basic styles.
Any suggestions?
I would like "Neurosurgery" as a style. Once I have and XML equivalent, how do I install it in 1.0.9?
Thanks
If you mean "Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry", then you can just install Vancouver (which should be installed automatically into 1.0.9 on upgrade) and use that, as JNNP uses the Vancouver style, and using the JNNP style is equivalent to using Vancouver.
I don't see anywhere the ability to import styles in 1.0.9. I went into preferences and don't see the styles tab.....
You can import standalone CSL files into 1.0.9 just by making sure they have a .csl extension and dragging them into Zotero.
Note that you can request a new Neurology CSL style (CSL is the format Zotero natively uses), see: http://www.zotero.org/support/requesting_styles