Zotero Notes! BIG BUG!!!

Peng_XoYa
I was very helpless, I built a table in Zotero Notes to organize the literature, but in the process of sorting, when I manually dragged the annotations in the literature into the table, the table magically disappeared. There's a lot of stuff in the table, is this a bug? Would the developers please resolve it quickly?
  • poettli
    Just to clarify, are you talking about a table generated with Zotero (Right-click -> Insert -> Table) or with a plugin?
  • Peng_XoYa
    table generated with Zotero (Right-click -> Insert -> Table), this way! i am so sad.
  • Peng_XoYa
    the comment is dragged into the Zotero notes table, and the table is missing.
  • Peng_XoYa
    @poettli: Is there a way to find the previous notes? thank you!
  • Peng_XoYa
    Another problem is that i can't undo an action by ctrl+Z
  • dstillman Zotero Team
    Can you provide the zotero.org URL from the address bar when you click on the parent item in your web library?
  • Peng_XoYa
    edited November 6, 2023
    cvs
  • dstillman Zotero Team
    Yeah, I'm afraid there's no table there.

    You can try temporarily disabling auto-sync and restoring from one of the automatic backups to see if you have a backup from when the table existed.

    Be sure to make a copy of all zotero.sqlite files in your data directory before doing anything.

    If you can reproduce this in a new note, please let us know exact steps to reproduce and we'll take a look.
  • Peng_XoYa
    Can you help me find the history before this entry? Thank you so much! @dstillman
  • dstillman Zotero Team
    See above.
  • Peng_XoYa
    thank you very much! According to the method you provided, although I found my notes synced last night, the pictures in the notes are missing. However, I still hope that this bug can be fixed.
  • dstillman Zotero Team
    edited November 6, 2023
    Yes, unfortunately any embedded images would likely be gone when restoring that way. But hopefully the text is still useful. You'll need to copy that into a new note before syncing (or make some other change to the note, which should trigger a conflict resolution dialog that lets you choose the local version).

    Again, if you're able to reproduce this in a new note, we'd certainly want to know how.
  • Peng_XoYa
    ok! I've had similar problems a few times before, and it makes me feel a bit of a headache. hahaha. However, I still hope that developers can optimize the function of the table function! For example, table nesting, etc.
  • dstillman Zotero Team
    But if you want this fixed, you should try to reproduce it in a new note and tell us how.
  • Peng_XoYa
    edited November 6, 2023
    I don't know how to show you this video, so can I see it?
  • Peng_XoYa
    https://github.com/zotero/zotero/issues/3475
    Or this? I upload it GIT-HUB.
  • mjthoraval
    I can reproduce with Zotero 7.0.0-beta.48+0cab24fb8 (64-bit) on Windows 10.
    Any drag and drop of text between cells deletes the whole table.
    This is reversible with Ctrl+Z for me, as long as I do not leave the note edition.
    Debug ID: D629574642
  • dstillman Zotero Team
    This should now be fixed in the latest beta. Please let us know if not. Thanks for reporting.
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