No Updating of underlined footnotes MacWindows

notsoeazy
Working on a Mac, where I disabled the automatic updates in the document preferences to make a large word document with thousands of footnotes work. And it did work, thanks to the help I got here I made it work. So, now I wanted to update these citations via Windows, as recommended - but somehow the footnotes - which are underlined, signaling that they are not updated/linked yet - are still underlined, even after refreshing and enabling the automatic updates again. What am I doing wrong here? Thanks in advance!
  • damnation
    How long did you let it run?
  • notsoeazy
    hours, days. shortened the document today to 50 pages, it ran since morning, i think its done, last rows say only this (see bottom) for hours, but footnotes are still unerlined and bibliography doesnt update / include the underlined footnotes

    (2)(+0005000): Waiting for database backup to complete

    (3)(+0000011): Last backup of database 'zotero' was less than 1440 minutes ago -- skipping backup

    (4)(+0000008): SELECT itemID FROM items JOIN deletedItems USING (itemID) WHERE libraryID=? AND dateDeleted <= DATE('NOW', '-30 DAYS') [1]

    (3)(+1683444): Last backup of database 'zotero' was less than 1440 minutes ago -- skipping backup

    (4)(+0005001): SELECT itemID FROM items JOIN deletedItems USING (itemID) WHERE libraryID=? AND dateDeleted <= DATE('NOW', '-30 DAYS') [1]

    (3)(+2907095): Last backup of database 'zotero' was less than 1440 minutes ago -- skipping backup

    (4)(+0004999): SELECT itemID FROM items JOIN deletedItems USING (itemID) WHERE libraryID=? AND dateDeleted <= DATE('NOW', '-30 DAYS') [1]
  • notsoeazy
    Debug ID: D1074296323
  • adomasven
    You have 490 citations in your document that you have edited manually, Zotero has prompted you about whether you want to keep those changes, and you said Yes. That is why Zotero is not updating them. This either occurred due to you modifying every inserted citation, or because of a bug. It would be great if you would elaborate on this.

    If you want Zotero to update them, you will either have to manually press Add/Edit Citation on every one of them and discard your changes, or use the Switch to a Different Word Processor… option, but reimport it back into your document. Note that any changes you have made to your citations and told Zotero to keep will be discarded.
  • notsoeazy
    Thanks for the quick reply.

    Yes, I edited them manually, because the Chicago Manual for newspapers didnt show the date, which was in my case important - so I edited all of them manually.

    when zotero first went through my big document, I indeed had to click several hundred times "yes please keep those changes." but after going through all of it, they were still underlined. in the short version of the document, Zotero actually didnt ask me to click yes or no anymore to discard or keep changes. probably, because he already did these changes in the basic document which I separated into chapters and maybe I cancelled the process to early? I would really like to keep my changes, but also update the citations. Is it somehow possible? it was no problem before when i still had the automated updates enabled
  • damnation
    What is the change you need. I'd rather help you modify the citation style and you having updateable citations than this.
  • notsoeazy
    Hmm, I see. Thanks! I need the newspapers with the newspaper name and the date: The Nigeria Standard, "Here Comes Festac Durbar," February 6, 1977 and if there is an author I want it Schröder in The New York Times, "XYZ Title," Januar 1, 2001.
    The application of short titles should be possible, too.
  • damnation
    edited today at 9:19am
    Right. Which exact Chicago style are you using though? CMOS 17, full note?

    This style will render a newspaper article like so:
    New York Times, “Rooftop Greenhouse Will Boost City Farming,” April 6, 2012.
    https://gist.github.com/POBrien333/3c4a418062d42938561a378548e0bee8/raw/e78a6fc0ff42af7f483dc153072a6cd3628c9362/chicago-fullnote-bibliography-notsoeazy.csl
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