unable to sync and program freezing

I received this reference number: 251091412. I can't sync and the program is slow and freezes up. I just spent the weekend putting my entire collection on t his program....please help
  • It's likely performing a large sync, which in the current version of Zotero can freeze the UI. Let is go for a little while and it should finish.
  • I have and the red ! still persists
  • What's the message?
  • Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIFileOutputStream.init]
  • Can you provide a Debug ID (different from a Report ID) for a sync attempt that produces that?
  • NS_ERROR_FAILURE generally points to a problem on your system, though. If you're running any security software, I would try temporarily disabling it and seeing if that helps.
  • Report ID: 1000676118

    Is that what you need?
  • No, follow the link — a Debug ID is different from a Report ID.
  • dstillman Zotero Team
    edited September 26, 2016
    [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIFileOutputStream.init]" nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://zotero/content/xpcom/file.js :: putContents :: line 228" data: no]"]
    putContents@chrome://zotero/content/xpcom/file.js:228:3
    Zotero.Fulltext
    Actually, never mind — don't need a Debug ID. So yes, something on your system is preventing Zotero/Firefox from writing files (in this case, full-text content files for searching) to the disk. Try disabling your security software or somehow excluding the Zotero data directory.
  • The Debug ID is D593789941. I uploaded to server
  • See above, if you missed it. Something on your system is blocking Zotero's (really Firefox's) write access to the Zotero data directory.
  • any idea which rule Norton is applying?
  • Both Zotero and Firefox are allowed thru Norton
  • I'm afraid we can't really help debug this — you'll need to figure out what on your system is blocking this. Here's what fails:
    Writing full-text content and data for item 0/66WEH5NU to C:\Users\[...]\AppData\Roaming\Zotero\Zotero\Profiles\2hjxdbld.default\zotero\storage\66WEH5NU\.zotero-ft-unprocessed
  • Hi Again, It says the path is corrupt and wants me to run the chkdsk utility....how do I do that?
  • Sorry, that's a Windows question — we can't help with that.

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.

Sign In or Register to comment.