Upgrade StorageDoes “Merge Items” operation change in Zotero v.6.0?
In Zotero v.5.X the merge-items-operation worked with keeping all pdf-attachment saved in the resulting item always. It seems, now in Zotero v.6.0.X this function differs. I merge several items, that each of them has a pdf-attachment. But the resulting merged item includes not all of the pdf-attachments.
I submitted debug output (D1848094395) of the merging two items with pdf-attachment, but only one attachment was left.
Is it a new conception of the merge-items-operation, or disfunction?
I think, the former method was better. The items need several pdf-attachments very often.
I submitted debug output (D1848094395) of the merging two items with pdf-attachment, but only one attachment was left.
Is it a new conception of the merge-items-operation, or disfunction?
I think, the former method was better. The items need several pdf-attachments very often.
For example, Find-Duplicate-Items operation is very useful, saves a lot of time, especially when I import some external collection to my library. But in some cases, the "duplicate diagnostics" is not perfect. The operation accepts items of different types as duplicate sometimes, when it should not to (ex., book-item with the title of the book and book-section item with the chapter in the same book (written by the editors of the book) that was named like the book). (It had a place in Zotero v.5.X). Don’t know about v.6.
It is not critical while operations are diagnostic. But it is a more sensitive case, when the function results in deleting some materials (attachments). I think, it would be more secure to have a dialog window for making an informed choice, or maybe another interactive form of notification (for example, with the checkbox “Trust AI / Let me choice: to determine similar attachments when merging” on the configuration panel).
If you have an example where two files that shouldn't be merged were merged, provide an example. Otherwise, there's nothing to discuss here.
Is it possible to choose the file to be deleted, not the reference to the attachment (if they are similar)? In order to escape redundant activities and file copies.
@astroHao: If you have questions about how Zotero works, you can just ask us — you don't need to ask someone's "experience". Deleted attachments after merging are moved to the Zotero trash.