Upgrade StorageTimline on Mac Word 2004 plugin?
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One is _always_ through the Zotero server.
It's very straightforward - you go into your preferences (in the gears menu) put in your username and password (same as for this forum) and then you can use the green cycle symbol on the right of your zotero panel to sync manually from all your computers. The default settings should work fine.
Since syncing is still beta I'd suggest backing up your database(s) before that.
The information will all be on the Zotero server.
For a number of reasons (server space not least) this does _not_ include syncing your attachments (i.e. snapshots and pdfs and whatever files you have attached). For that you need a separate WebDAV. You will need to activate that in the preferences. For any further questions on this, please refer to an appropriate thread, so that this one remains on the Word 2004 plugin.
I´m running Mac OS X 10.5 and Word 2004 for Mac. Unfortunatly I upgraded from Zotero 1.0 to 2.0. Now I can´t get the above mentiond word integration to work. I downloaded it and as I tried to start the skript reader there was a syntaxmistake. I´m not to familiar to all this so maybe you can help me out.
Do I have to downgrade somehow? Thanks
The error in german:
Syntaxfehler -
Es wurde „Zeilenende, etc.“ erwartet, aber ein „„"““ wurde gefunden.
Did you restart Word after installation?
Do you have an /Applications/Microsoft Office 2004/Office/Startup/Word folder?
Do you see Zotero.dot within it?
What I do have is:
Library/ Application Support/ Zotero/ Word 2004 / Word 2004.py
or
Microsoft Office 2004/ Office / Start/ Word/
but I could not find a Zotero.dot
Is there any hope for the german Word copie?
tell application "Finder"
try
set mswd to application file "Microsoft Word" of folder "Microsoft Office 2004" of (path to applications folder)
on error
set mswd to application file id "MSWD"
end try
set startupFolder to POSIX path of ((folder "Word" of folder "Startup" of folder "Office" of folder of mswd) as alias)
end tell
Then press Run. What output do you see in the bottom half of the window?
Apple-Skript Error
«class cfol» "Word" of «class cfol» "Startup" of «class cfol» "Office" of «class cfol» of «class appf» "Microsoft Word" of «class cfol» "Microsoft Office 2004" of «class cfol» "Applications" of «class sdsk» of application "Finder" kann nicht in Typ alias umgewandelt werden.
What's the output for this?
tell application "Finder"try
set startupFolder to POSIX path of ((folder "Word" of folder "Startup" of folder "Office" of folder of application file "Microsoft Word" of folder "Microsoft Office 2004" of (path to applications folder)) as alias)
on error
try
set startupFolder to POSIX path of ((folder "Startup" of folder "Office" of folder of application file "Microsoft Word" of folder "Microsoft Office 2004" of (path to applications folder)) as alias)
on error
try
set startupFolder to POSIX path of ((folder "Office" of folder of application file "Microsoft Word" of folder "Microsoft Office 2004" of (path to applications folder)) as alias)
on error
try
set startupFolder to POSIX path of ((application file "Microsoft Word" of folder "Microsoft Office 2004" of (path to applications folder)) as alias)
on error
try
set startupFolder to POSIX path of ((folder "Microsoft Office 2004" of (path to applications folder)) as alias)
on error
try
set startupFolder to POSIX path of ((path to applications folder) as alias)
on error
try
set startupFolder to POSIX path of ((application file id "MSWD") as alias)
on error
set startFolder to "Fail"
end try
end try
end try
end try
end try
end try
end try
end tell
"/Applications/Microsoft Office 2004/Office/"
Can anyone else with a German (or other non-English) copy of Office 2004 check whether this is the case in their installation as well? I see only two references to that path in Google, and many for Startup.
If it doesn't, try moving the Zotero.dot file from Startup/Word to Start/Word.
Without moving it into Start/Word.
Thank you so much!!!!!
The Zotero toolbar won't show up unless I open the zotero.dot template in office/startup/word.
This allows me to use "cite as you write" in the template itself but I can't save the document as a .doc, it will only let me save as another .dot.
Zotero does not appear in the "View - toolbar" menu either. Any suggestions?
Do you see any other directories under the Microsoft Office 2004 folder that might be localized versions of the expected ones?
In the Word preferences, File Locations, is Startup set to anything?
As for alternate directories, "Démarrer" is the french translation to "Startup" and there are other .dot files in the Word folder, such as pdfmaker.dot.
Thanks
Yes, there is a
Office/Startup/Word/zotero.dot
and a
Office/Demarrer/Word/pdfmaker.dot
I'm trying to see if we could improve documentation so that other people with similar problems can figure this out themselves.
Here are some thoughts: your "compatibility table" says the 2.0 Beta version is compatible with Word for Mac 2004 but the link below for the plugin leads to a page where only the Word 2008 compatibility plugin is available.
I only found the Word 2004 for mac plugin link in a comment by Simon (april 7) on this thread.
From there, the wizard did all the installing. I carefully read this whole thread for troubleshooting info before I asked for help but it might be worth noting somewhere in the "support" section that the zotero.dot template should be placed in the "Startup" directory identified in whatever language one's Word version is.
Looking forward to "citing as I write"