Zotero stopped saving papers to my library

berkovichaviva · July 26, 2018

Pressing the "save to zotero" button saves to my library the "google scholar" sheet, instead of the paper itself. Any advise is most welcome!

adamsmith · July 26, 2018

Start here: https://www.zotero.org/support/troubleshooting_translator_issues

berkovichaviva · July 26, 2018

I upgraded both firefox and the zotero but it's still not importing papers into my library

berkovichaviva · July 26, 2018

i also updated java in case this is causing the problem

adamsmith · July 26, 2018

We really need you to go through these one-by-one. If nothing helps, the final step asks for specific information we need for troubleshooting.

berkovichaviva · July 26, 2018

OK, I even paid to enlarge my space from 300MB to 2GB, as I saw I reached the limit. But it didn't solve the problem.
So, the URL is google scholar
https://scholar.google.co.il/scholar?as_q=&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_occt=title&as_sauthors=pinker&as_publication=&as_ylo=&as_yhi=&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5
I don't understand how to find my Debug ID
When I try saving it said: An error occurred while saving this item. See Troubleshooting Translator Issues for more information.
As for the translator: When I hover the cursor over the “Save to Zotero” button, the tooltip shows "save to zotero(google scholar)"

I hope this info will help you help me!

adamsmith · July 26, 2018

Try if you can still save from other pages, e.g. http://www.worldcat.org/title/theory-of-moral-sentiments-or-an-essay-towards-an-analysis-of-the-principles-by-which-men-naturally-judge-concerning-the-conduct-and-character-first-of-their-neighbours-and-afterwards-of-themselves-to-which-is-added-a-dissertation-on-the-origin-of-languages/oclc/881361410&referer=brief_results

The above link works for me and I'm guessing you're just getting blocked by google scholar, likely because you've been using it a lot with Zotero. You can test that by clicking on the quotation mark icon under a reference in google scholar and then clicking "BibTeX". I'd expect google will ask you to prove you're not a bot.

berkovichaviva · July 27, 2018

You are right! I did save from the site you gave, and google scholar did ask me if I'm not a robot.
yet, I'm used to finding and saving references from google scholar. will I be able to go back to that, or I'm blocked for them using zotero?

bwiernik · July 27, 2018

You should be unblocked eventually, but it’s generally a good idea to follow the links from Google Scholar to the publisher page. Google Scholar generally has very poor quality metadata.