Upgrade StorageDuplicate bibliography entries and citation problems after losing library
Hi,
A few months ago I lost my Zotero library file due to hard drive failure. When my hard drive was fixed and I reinstalled Zotero, I synced my library from Zotero online, but the sync was from a while ago so I ended up losing a fair few entries from Zotero. I had used Zotero for referencing in a Word document and when I came back to this document I saw that the citations were retained within the document. I went through my bibliography list in Word and added (manually) to Zotero the entries that had been lost from the software.
I've now encountered a problem where, say, a citation that was made prior to the loss of references from Zotero that did say 'Jones 2000' now says 'S. S. Jones 2000' but any subsequent references to the same publication (after I added the info into Zotero manually) display correctly 'Jones 2000'. This results in two duplicate entries in the bibliography (originally one had S. S. Jones and the other S. Jones, but I added the extra initial in Zotero and updated the references in Word, and now they're showing as two entries that are exactly the same).
I've discovered that replacing the "old" solely in-text citations with the "new" ones that are now in Zotero works, but is there any way to correct this more easily than doing this manually on a one-by-one basis?
Many thanks for any help!
A few months ago I lost my Zotero library file due to hard drive failure. When my hard drive was fixed and I reinstalled Zotero, I synced my library from Zotero online, but the sync was from a while ago so I ended up losing a fair few entries from Zotero. I had used Zotero for referencing in a Word document and when I came back to this document I saw that the citations were retained within the document. I went through my bibliography list in Word and added (manually) to Zotero the entries that had been lost from the software.
I've now encountered a problem where, say, a citation that was made prior to the loss of references from Zotero that did say 'Jones 2000' now says 'S. S. Jones 2000' but any subsequent references to the same publication (after I added the info into Zotero manually) display correctly 'Jones 2000'. This results in two duplicate entries in the bibliography (originally one had S. S. Jones and the other S. Jones, but I added the extra initial in Zotero and updated the references in Word, and now they're showing as two entries that are exactly the same).
I've discovered that replacing the "old" solely in-text citations with the "new" ones that are now in Zotero works, but is there any way to correct this more easily than doing this manually on a one-by-one basis?
Many thanks for any help!
This is an old discussion that has not been active in a long time. Before commenting here, you should strongly consider starting a new discussion instead. If you think the content of this discussion is still relevant, you can link to it from your new discussion.
Zotero stores the reference in the document and then uses that info when it can't find the corresponding item in Zotero. And "corresponding item" here refers to the unique identifier in the database, not the same work from a human perspective.