Sync problem

How to solve this?

The creator name “Beam AL, Collins GS, Darzi A, Deeks JJ, ElZarrad M…” in one of your items is too long to sync. Shorten the field and sync again.

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  • The message means what it says. What's your question? Where did you save the item from?
  • The problem seems to be that you have 5 authors in a field designed for one. Did you enter them manually that way, or did an article's metadata automatically come out that way ? In any case, copy and paste each author into their own single author field for that item.
  • edited December 9, 2022
    (They almost certainly came from a bad manual import. And it wouldn't be 5 authors — it would be dozens or hundreds of authors to hit the length limit. More details here.)
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