Identifying references, which "Citations" are no longer updated in retrospect.
Hi,
I have the following problem. I have a Word document which was altered by many different people. When I now want to "Zotero Refresh" the document I receive following message.
"You have modified this citation since Zotero generated it. Do you want to keep your modifications and prevent future updates? Clicking "Yes" will prevent Zotero from updating this citation if you add additional citations, switch styles, or modify the item to which it refers. Clicking "No" will erase your changes"
Clicking "No" leads to a Word doc. which still updates the changes that I undertake within my Zotero library in Firefox.
Clicking "Yes" leads to a Word doc. in which "Citations" aren't updated any more, after altering my Zotero library.
Example for clicking "Yes":
Citations before change:
(Jaeger et al.) -- changes in the Firefox library Jaeger --> Jäger
-- Zotero refresh (in Word) -- Citation in Word still says Jaeger et all, bibliography in Word says Jäger.
My question is this:
Is there a possibility within Zotero to show (or highlight) all citations that can not be changed any more? In other words, the citations references that where responded by "Yes" afterwards?
And what could have happened that this message appeared in the first place.
Thanks so much in advance...
Daniel
I have the following problem. I have a Word document which was altered by many different people. When I now want to "Zotero Refresh" the document I receive following message.
"You have modified this citation since Zotero generated it. Do you want to keep your modifications and prevent future updates? Clicking "Yes" will prevent Zotero from updating this citation if you add additional citations, switch styles, or modify the item to which it refers. Clicking "No" will erase your changes"
Clicking "No" leads to a Word doc. which still updates the changes that I undertake within my Zotero library in Firefox.
Clicking "Yes" leads to a Word doc. in which "Citations" aren't updated any more, after altering my Zotero library.
Example for clicking "Yes":
Citations before change:
(Jaeger et al.) -- changes in the Firefox library Jaeger --> Jäger
-- Zotero refresh (in Word) -- Citation in Word still says Jaeger et all, bibliography in Word says Jäger.
My question is this:
Is there a possibility within Zotero to show (or highlight) all citations that can not be changed any more? In other words, the citations references that where responded by "Yes" afterwards?
And what could have happened that this message appeared in the first place.
Thanks so much in advance...
Daniel
I can't tell you exactly what happened without more details, but see my answer above.
"You have modified this citation since Zotero generated it. Do you want to keep your modifications and prevent future updates?
Clicking "Yes" will prevent Zotero from updating this citation if you add additional citations, switch styles, or modify the item to which it refers. Clicking "No" will erase your changes."
I checked EVERY reference and make sure that all of them are present in Zotero "database". After all that job, the error stays and I can't do anything about it.
I cannot rely on Zotero any more!
Libreoffice Writer 5.2.4.2 @ Debian stable.
Can someone, please, help me? I'm writing PhD thesis and it's very frustrating, annoying and make me helpless.
https://www.zotero.org/support/word_processor_plugin_usage
For your current document, if you choose "No", it will erase your manually made changes to the citation. You should figure out which citation it is referring to and then re-insert those changes using the Zotero dialog instead.
Zotero should be helping not breaking!
I found that Zotero is being confused by multiple sources - it can't update them properly.
It sounds like you may have accidentally typed in a citation or else LibreOffice automatically made some change (e.g., maybe a spell check changed a word spelling or sometimes LibreOffice's track changes/commenting feature doesn't play nicely with other feature like Reference Marks/Bookmarks).
In any event, if you don't recall making a change, you can probably safely just click "No" on the error message and let Zotero revert whatever change it was. Otherwise, try to split your document into chapters and identify which citation is throwing the error and replace that one. Splitting the document into chapters will also help to keep it running smoothly as you insert more and more citations in a longer document.
Yes, I'm quite frustrated. No, it's not my fault. Yes, I often recommend Zotero to my students and colleagues and now came to this horrible situation second time after while.
You click insert reference -- then what?
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https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/comment/343904#Comment_343904