Upgrade StorageZotero smooshing titles/authors from .bib file into one single reference
Last resort coming here! Haven't seen this issue mentioned, or at least don't know how to search for it. I'm helping someone with reference management. He attempted to import his .bib file to Zotero and he says this is the result: "I did get zotero to import the file but then found it all scrunched together. Eventually enlarged it found a list of titles followed by initials of authors but not the actual references in the journals." So it sounds like Zotero is thinking that all his references (or at least the title/author fields) are one single reference instead of discrete references. He's using a Mac, I'm using a PC. When I imported his .bib file, it worked fine for me, so I wonder if one of the settings in his Zotero app is off?
Any takers for solving this mystery?
Any takers for solving this mystery?
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If this is just about solving the issue, you could export to Zotero RDF and they could re-import. Otherwise, it'd really require direct troubleshooting with the malfunctioning Zotero installation.
First things I'd try would be a small bibtex file and importing from clipboard for testing, if problem occurs for all of those, resetting translators (that's in the advanced tab of the preferences).
What's curious is that it works fine for me no matter what method I use to get those references into the desired library. E.g. in DropBox (where the parent document resides), when I click "Download" it gives me the option to "Open with... Zotero", and when I do that, it works beautifully. If I download/save and then import into Zotero, it also works. Cutting/pasting the references into AnyStyle ALSO works. So there *can't* be a problem with the BibTex file itself or would I not also have trouble with it? I might suggest he un- then re-install his Zotero desktop app. Perhaps something went awry in that initial set up. We're all new to Zotero (less than 2 weeks into it) so we're stumbling our way through. So far, though, this is the only problem we've encountered. Otherwise, it's working brilliantly for us.
From your experiments, I would guess that there's nothing structurally wrong, but without seeing the file, I can only guess. Not a great fan of guessing.