[5.0.11] My Publications does not sync when upgrading from Zotero Firefox to Standalone
At my work, I moved from Zotero Firefox to Zotero 5.0 Beta, and eventually Zotero 5.x. I am currently at 5.0.11. I had set up the My Publications feature while I was on Beta.
This past weekend, at my home, I moved from Zotero Firefox to Zotero 5.0.11. I noticed the My Publications folder/collection at home is empty and is prompting me to redefine which items are created by me. Shouldn't My Publications have synced after the update?
This past weekend, at my home, I moved from Zotero Firefox to Zotero 5.0.11. I noticed the My Publications folder/collection at home is empty and is prompting me to redefine which items are created by me. Shouldn't My Publications have synced after the update?
What's a full manual sync? I clicked the sync button a couple times.
My Publications on zotero.org look fine.
You can try Reset Data Sync History from the Sync -> Reset pane of the preferences, though I'm not sure if that will help.
If that doesn't work, you can try adding all the items in My Publications to a temporary collection and syncing (and then removing the collection). That will cause all those items to be marked as updated, which should cause the My Publications flag on them to sync down to the other computer.
I could also just drag-drop the items to the My Publications at home, right? All of them show up in a saved search with myself as author. Will this create a sync conflict, and thus the temp collection method you suggest is better?
The items are currently considered in-sync on your home computer, so if you make local changes (like dragging them to My Publications), I believe those changes should upload without conflict.
I did a drag-drop of the items from a saved search to My Publications. So far, everything looks fine.