Citation style modifications overwritten by zotero - months of modifications lost
Hi,
I am a bit in a distress situation because Zotero has eaten up my citation style modifications compelled in days of work.
I used this style http://www.zotero.org/styles/juristische-zitierweise-offentliches-recht and did numerous modifications to it within Zotero. Now that style got updated on 18th of April and all my modifications are gone. Those modifications were made over the course of months and were quiet a lot of work. I am totally unable to reconstruct the changes I made, and building them again each time something does not fit my needs would significantly kill my PhD-progress. Hopefully there is a way to save me from loosing weeks of work.
I am disappointed that those files get overwritten with no questions asked if modifications were made!
Kind regards,
Fabian
I am a bit in a distress situation because Zotero has eaten up my citation style modifications compelled in days of work.
I used this style http://www.zotero.org/styles/juristische-zitierweise-offentliches-recht and did numerous modifications to it within Zotero. Now that style got updated on 18th of April and all my modifications are gone. Those modifications were made over the course of months and were quiet a lot of work. I am totally unable to reconstruct the changes I made, and building them again each time something does not fit my needs would significantly kill my PhD-progress. Hopefully there is a way to save me from loosing weeks of work.
I am disappointed that those files get overwritten with no questions asked if modifications were made!
Kind regards,
Fabian
https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/citation_styles/style_editing_step-by-step#change_the_style_title_and_id
Zotero has to keep its installed styles up to date and has no way of knowing that you edited the style if you don't change the id.
But we have an open ticket to add an Install button to the Style Editor that would warn if the id and title haven't been changed.
And again, we mention this very prominently in the style-editing instructions.
Anyway, there's no point in arguing about this. As I say, we have an open ticket to add an Install button, which will warn if the id hasn't been changed, and we can show the same warning if someone manually navigates to the data directory from Save As. There's really nothing else to say on this.