[5.0 Beta] Standalone blank UI upon restart
Hi,
While playing around with Standalone 5.0 and the 5.0 Safari Add-on on macOS in relation to this discussion:
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/63853/no-pdf-attachments-from-science-sciencemag-org-with-ezproxy#latest
I tried to restart Standalone.
Upon restart, the UI remained mostly blank, no entries, tags visible. Buttons could be clicked but nothing happend. Several menu options such as 'report errors' would also not work.
https://flic.kr/p/QZcHSk
The preference panel could still be opened but logging out of my account and back in would not solve things.
When I renamed ~/Library/Application Support/Zotero to ~/Library/Application Support/ZoteroOLD
Restarting standalone now resulted in re-creation of ~/Library/Application Support/Zotero and magically, all was well again.
https://flic.kr/p/PTpd5h
I can provide the contents of the apparently 'broken' Zotero folder if that would be useful.
While playing around with Standalone 5.0 and the 5.0 Safari Add-on on macOS in relation to this discussion:
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/63853/no-pdf-attachments-from-science-sciencemag-org-with-ezproxy#latest
I tried to restart Standalone.
Upon restart, the UI remained mostly blank, no entries, tags visible. Buttons could be clicked but nothing happend. Several menu options such as 'report errors' would also not work.
https://flic.kr/p/QZcHSk
The preference panel could still be opened but logging out of my account and back in would not solve things.
When I renamed ~/Library/Application Support/Zotero to ~/Library/Application Support/ZoteroOLD
Restarting standalone now resulted in re-creation of ~/Library/Application Support/Zotero and magically, all was well again.
https://flic.kr/p/PTpd5h
I can provide the contents of the apparently 'broken' Zotero folder if that would be useful.
I think it starts when I close Firefox... but I'm not sure
In any case, I just emailed one of the broken Zotero folders from ~/Library/Application Support/
EDIT:
FF is not involved. After restarting once or twice, the UI blanks out again...
After deleting the 'Zotero' folder from App Support and signing in again, Standalone will restart without issues only once.
A second restart will result in a blank UI.
I made copies of 'Zotero' at each time point and compared each snapshot with a diff tool and this allowed me to find at least one offending file:
https://flic.kr/p/R7q2F5
If I add the line:
'InvalidateCaches=1' to 'compatibility.ini'
I can recover standalone from it's 'blanked UI' state.
https://flic.kr/p/QAysQS
I will also zip all of these snapshots and Email them.