Upgrade StorageZotero stopped working in thesis
I'm using Zotero 1.0.10, Firefox 3.0.14, Open office 3.1.1 on Ubuntu 8.10
Zotero has stopped working in my thesis document. It seems to be fine in other documents. I think it began when I started recording changes. It happened slowly - first it just got very slow. Then a few times, it told me it couldn't communicate with firefox - firefox was open and online (needing to be online wasn't an issue in windows, but seems to be in my current setup). It seemed to be better after closing the document and firefox and starting again - but this no longer helps. Now I'm getting this error when I try to add a citation:
Basic runtime error
An exception occurred
Type: com.sun.star.lang.illegalArgumentException
Message:.
And the macro opens.
The only button working on Ooo's zotero toolbar is the document preferences button.
Thanks for your advice - I love zotero, have converted no end of my friends to it and am distressed to find it not working.
Karen
Zotero has stopped working in my thesis document. It seems to be fine in other documents. I think it began when I started recording changes. It happened slowly - first it just got very slow. Then a few times, it told me it couldn't communicate with firefox - firefox was open and online (needing to be online wasn't an issue in windows, but seems to be in my current setup). It seemed to be better after closing the document and firefox and starting again - but this no longer helps. Now I'm getting this error when I try to add a citation:
Basic runtime error
An exception occurred
Type: com.sun.star.lang.illegalArgumentException
Message:.
And the macro opens.
The only button working on Ooo's zotero toolbar is the document preferences button.
Thanks for your advice - I love zotero, have converted no end of my friends to it and am distressed to find it not working.
Karen
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/2492/openoffice-basic-runtime-error/
If not, the unfortunate truth is that the OO plugin was always brittle and completely unable to handle documents with large numbers of citations. My own experience was that once you had around 50 citations it became unusably slow. Some discussions of this issue:
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/8272/ooo-30-extremely-slow-saving-due-to-many-zotero-refs/
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/2070/openoffice-plugin-too-slow/
The good news is that the very latest beta has a completely new word processor plugin implementation. I haven't tested thoroughly but in a brief test it seemed to handle large documents better.
So you might consider upgrading to 2.0 beta. At this point the 2.0 version is stable and it has loads of new features, but that could be an unwanted distraction if you're in the middle of writing. If you DO upgrade be aware you need to uninstall the OO plugin and install an additional FF extension - this is covered in the installation instructions.
I'm just at the beginning of writing, so decided it was better to face any problems now rather than later. I've divided the document and upgraded and now things seem to be working again.
Karen