Upgrade StorageDoes Zotero log why PDF retrieval fails (using find full text)?
We're building a database of 5k+ articles and trying to get PDFs attached using the Find Full Text option (NB: in the desktop app trying both 7 and 8.beta versions).
We've tried breaking things into smaller batches, using our university VPN, and connecting directly on campus, but we're still only getting PDFs for about 80% of items.
We'll ultimately just work with whatever we can get PDFs for so the specific amount is not 100% crucial, but for our methods documentation/reproducibility purposes we'd like to understand what's happening with the failures. We assume some of it will be due to paywalls/articles our university doesn't have access to but it also seems to be that the full text function can struggle (especially with larger batches).
Since we can't manually check 1000+ failed items one by one to verify we were curious whether Zotero keeps any log of why specific PDF retrievals fail? Or if not, are there known limitations on batch sizes or success rates that we should be aware of or any general information on limits of the Find Full Text functionality?
I've searched through the forum and found lots of helpful tips on maximizing PDF retrieval (which is why we tried the VPN and direct access approaches), but I haven't seen anything about the general limitations of the feature itself.
Any info or advice would be helpful -Thanks!
We've tried breaking things into smaller batches, using our university VPN, and connecting directly on campus, but we're still only getting PDFs for about 80% of items.
We'll ultimately just work with whatever we can get PDFs for so the specific amount is not 100% crucial, but for our methods documentation/reproducibility purposes we'd like to understand what's happening with the failures. We assume some of it will be due to paywalls/articles our university doesn't have access to but it also seems to be that the full text function can struggle (especially with larger batches).
Since we can't manually check 1000+ failed items one by one to verify we were curious whether Zotero keeps any log of why specific PDF retrievals fail? Or if not, are there known limitations on batch sizes or success rates that we should be aware of or any general information on limits of the Find Full Text functionality?
I've searched through the forum and found lots of helpful tips on maximizing PDF retrieval (which is why we tried the VPN and direct access approaches), but I haven't seen anything about the general limitations of the feature itself.
Any info or advice would be helpful -Thanks!
If you can reproduce a failure for a specific file, you can provide a Debug ID and we might be able to say more. (You can view the debug output, but it's meant for developers, so I wouldn't recommend it.)