Please help - Zotero keeps not responding after Medline upload/deletion
Hello!
I have posted a few times about issues with importing items from Medline but haven't received a response? I tried again after completing the sift of items from other databases but the system crashed again. I deleted all Medline-imported items but it still won't work or update and I now cannot use my last two months' work. Can someone please help?
Thanks!
Tamsin
I have posted a few times about issues with importing items from Medline but haven't received a response? I tried again after completing the sift of items from other databases but the system crashed again. I deleted all Medline-imported items but it still won't work or update and I now cannot use my last two months' work. Can someone please help?
Thanks!
Tamsin
I have imported items from MEDLINE (after having imported successfully from other databases) and there seems to be an error in terms of multiple author fields which seems to corrupt the imports (see my last posts for the details - seems to be a common problem). I tried the work arounds I could manage and also put these in the post too so won't repeat here!
I then deleted all my MEDLINE imported articles/items, as well as deleting them from the Trash but I am left with the same problem - failure to sync, very slow running and constant non-responding. Hope I've explained it a bit better!
Can you please give a URL from MEDLINE that imported with incorrect author fields?
For your current database, when you say "failure to sync", what do you mean? Do you get an error message or does it simply take a long time? What version of Zotero are you running?
Can you please submit an error report ID (https://www.zotero.org/support/reporting_problems) and Debug ID (separate thing, https://www.zotero.org/support/debug_output) for a sync attempt that fails?
In terms of the current database - failure to sync I mean the top right hand corner when you open Zotero/re-launch - the green circular arrow turns for ages and then I get the usual red exclamation mark. It doesn't sync however long you leave it.
The MEDLINE URL issue - I can't at the moment since I don't want to upload anymore MEDLINE articles incase it gets even worse if that's ok? If you look at my last post you can see the examples hopefully there, and it also seems to be the same problem which other users have highlighted with multiple author fields and the work arounds I tried were in my last post. EDIT: When I try to search for the article in the error report ID I I find it actually under the "Editor" field with multiple entries rather than Creator as per the error report. I delete that reference and then the sync fails again due to another long Editor field in a separate article.
I have submitted an error report ID (949817224) on the forum and have also submitted a debug log ID (this logged 71 lines but then kept starting and stopping). However I didn't realise I had to post this too - is this received any other way other than a post? This debug log may also have picked up me trying to search for the article cited in the error report - apologies if so.
Version of Zotero - how do I find that, sorry to have to ask. I downloaded it mid-June this year if that helps? I am just upgrading to 5.0.4 now. EDIT - having upgraded all my MEDLINE data (previously deleted) re-appeared again. I have now deleted, deleted out of trash and removed all items which brought up error messages and my Zotero appears to be syncing again MINUS any Medline data.
Thanks so much!
What happens if you access Medline directly via PubMed?
I'll see if I can find one of the culprits from Medline this afternoon and post again.
I have just searched but couldn't find it as I did last week, but here is the link generated from my email updates: https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/comment/277282#Comment_277282
edit: by posting under different usernames you make it very difficult for anyone to connect your requests to the same person and the same problem. This will also make syncing more complicated.
Please answer the URL and OVID questions.
When you say "the system crashed" -- what exactly does that mean?
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Ovid - yes it was from OVID.
Medline URL - not sure if you still need this because it's quite a well-known problem it seems as adamsmith says - you were previously trying to help me with it but think the thread got lost.
Debug ID - I've had to uninstall and install Zotero this morning, our IT department is trying to move location of it but didn't manage to correctly so will this still work since I have done this?
adamsmith - system crashed - not-responding, screen goes grey. And totally yup - its the same issue that many seemed to be reporting. I just wondered if anything could be done to fix it at all.