macOS: Time needed to export large library
I want to export my Zotero library containing 2753 items including all PDFs (the size of my Zotero folder being 15 GB) to Cita. To do so, I clicked "Export library" with BibTeX as the chosen format and activated the export files button.
How long should the export of this library take approximately? I'm asking because, weirdly enough, upon executing the export on Zotero, no window popped up indicating the remaining time left for the export.
Also, can I already import the library to Citavi before the library has been exported including all files or should I rather wait?
How long should the export of this library take approximately? I'm asking because, weirdly enough, upon executing the export on Zotero, no window popped up indicating the remaining time left for the export.
Also, can I already import the library to Citavi before the library has been exported including all files or should I rather wait?
Does this mean that the export isn't done yet? Or is it normal to have a certain percentage of empty folders?
Does this mean that if there's an error, it will not be shown?
Here's the Debug ID: D959078784. Any help is much appreciated - and do let me know if you need any additional information.
I've merged this back into one thread.
I did everything according to instructions: enabled Debut Output Logging, performed the action (in my case: exporting entire library), waited about 4 hours until the export stopped copying the PDFs - reaching, like last time, 11.7 out of 12.8 GB - and finally clicked on Debug Output and clicked Submit.
The Debug Output window popped up, but for some reason remained blank. As Zotero was no longer responding, I "force quit" Zotero. Afterwards I reopened Zotero and clicked on Debug Output. It worked this time: D264116354. But because Zotero crashed, I don't know whether if I need to redo the above steps all over again - please let me know.
Since this is macOS, you can log easily to a file:
https://www.zotero.org/support/debug_output#logging_to_a_terminal_window
See the part about "when Zotero is crashing or hanging".
You can then zip the file created on your desktop (right-click → Compress) and email it to us at support@zotero.org.
Thanks in advance for your help!
Here's the Debug ID: D22464765.
(For what it's worth, you can also likely figure out what's causing this by doing a binary search: export half of the library, and if that succeeds export the other half, and then export half of the failing half, and so on until you hopefully find a single item that fails.)
I then disabled auto-sync and repeated the export of said item. Same deal - export folder stays empty. Here's the Debug ID: D1634162320.
In any case, I really don't need that particular item, so I can delete it if that helps at all.
Also: did I correctly disable auto-sync or not?
You're getting errors (and presumably empty files) for a bunch of files, though. Some of the items that are failing:
66DSFA4C
CQAV77W2
HMXR22X6
FGRPS43K
3LIJEAMK
QKWQ22I3
CGGF38GC
U6PUHK9M
JFHWRRAJ
QLY56HIF
EDMSVFWY
If you send some of these to support@zotero.org, we can take a look.
@matinynas_b: which PDF are you referring to?
Martynas was referring to the first PDF you sent. The other ones are failing in different ways, and we still need to look through those.
How much time will this take approximately? Are we talking days, weeks or months?