"There was an error starting Zotero..." crash on program start-up

maakujonson
I'm getting the following pop-up when I start. It looks like a read/write error having to do with the SD card my library is saved on (D:\).

Please advise.

"There was an error starting Zotero.

You can report this problem in the Zotero Forums.

[Exception... "Could not open connection to D:\Zotero\zotero.sqlite: 2153971714" nsresult: "0x80630002 (NS_ERROR_STORAGE_IOERR)" location: "JS frame :: resource://gre/modules/Sqlite.sys.mjs :: openConnection/</< :: line 1336" data: no]
openConnection/</<@resource://gre/modules/Sqlite.sys.mjs:1336:23
From previous event:
Zotero.DBConnection.prototype._getConnectionAsync@chrome://zotero/content/xpcom/db.js:1228:45
getContentsFromURL@chrome://zotero/content/xpcom/file.js:339:13
Zotero.Intl</<@chrome://zotero/content/xpcom/intl.js:100:35
Zotero.Intl</this.getString@chrome://zotero/content/xpcom/intl.js:144:18
this.getString@chrome://zotero/content/xpcom/zotero.js:1539:24
ZoteroPane<@chrome://zotero/content/zoteroPane.js:3173:19
@chrome://zotero/content/zoteroPane.js:31:18
@chrome://zotero/content/zoteroPane.xhtml:82:25
"
  • maakujonson
    Problem solved.

    It was an SD card issue. It must have had unfinished IO operations interrupted somehow. I used the windows auto-repair feature and Zotero opened properly after that.

    Sorry, nothing else to see here.
    These are not the droids you're looking for. Move along, move along.
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