"Child Item Must Be Note" Error

jlynch00
Dear folks,

This is about report-ID 1828860477. I think I inadvertently changed one or more notes into a different item type. Now, whenever I sync, I get an error message, "Child item must be note, attachment, or annotation."

I'm not sure how to fix this. I've eyeballed all the entries looking for anything that's not a note, but I don't see any (it's possible I'm just missing something). I tried exporting and reimporting all the records in which the problem might have occurred, but it's not fixed.

For the record, this happened when I was running some recent version of Zotero 9. This morning I upgraded to the new Zotero 10, hoping it might help, but no luck.

Any tips?
  • dstillman Zotero Team
    Can you provide a Debug ID (different from a Report ID) for a sync that produces this error?
  • jlynch00
    Here's what I got:

    D471787437

    And here's the whole report:

    1789308677283 addons.xpi-utils WARN Add-on zoteroshortdoi@wiernik.org is not compatible with application version.

    1789308677420 addons.xpi-utils WARN Add-on zoteroshortdoi@wiernik.org is not compatible with application version.

    1789308681629 addons.xpi-utils WARN Add-on zoteroshortdoi@wiernik.org is not compatible with application version.

    [JavaScript Error: "uncaught exception: undefined"]

    [JavaScript Error: "Error 400 for item L38PPCIZ in My Library:

    ZoteroObjectUploadError: Child item must be note, attachment, or annotation"]

    [JavaScript Error: "Child item must be note, attachment, or annotation" {file: "chrome://zotero/content/xpcom/sync/syncEngine.js" line: 0}]

    [JavaScript Error: "Error 400 for item L38PPCIZ in My Library:

    ZoteroObjectUploadError: Child item must be note, attachment, or annotation"]

    [JavaScript Error: "Child item must be note, attachment, or annotation" {file: "chrome://zotero/content/xpcom/sync/syncEngine.js" line: 0}]

    [JavaScript Error: "Error 400 for item L38PPCIZ in My Library:

    ZoteroObjectUploadError: Child item must be note, attachment, or annotation"]

    [JavaScript Error: "Child item must be note, attachment, or annotation" {file: "chrome://zotero/content/xpcom/sync/syncEngine.js" line: 0}]

    [JavaScript Error: "Error: Failed to load resource://services-settings/remote-settings.sys.mjs" {file: "resource://gre/modules/BTPRemoteExceptionList.sys.mjs" line: 27}]
    BTPRemoteExceptionList@resource://gre/modules/BTPRemoteExceptionList.sys.mjs:27:5


    [JavaScript Error: "Error 400 for item L38PPCIZ in My Library:

    ZoteroObjectUploadError: Child item must be note, attachment, or annotation"]

    [JavaScript Error: "Child item must be note, attachment, or annotation" {file: "chrome://zotero/content/xpcom/sync/syncEngine.js" line: 0}]

    [JavaScript Error: "Made no progress during upload -- stopping" {file: "chrome://zotero/content/xpcom/sync/syncEngine.js" line: 0}]

    [JavaScript Error: "Made no progress during upload -- stopping" {file: "chrome://zotero/content/xpcom/sync/syncEngine.js" line: 0}]

    appName => Zotero, version => 10.0.2 (x64), os => Windows 11 26200, locale => en-US, extensions => Zutilo Utility for Zotero (4.2.2, extension), OpenH264 Video Codec provided by Cisco Systems, Inc. (1.8.1.2, plugin), Widevine Content Decryption Module provided by Google Inc. (4.10.2830.0, plugin), DOI Manager (1.5.0, extension, disabled), Actions and Tags for Zotero (2.5.2, extension, disabled)
  • jlynch00
    Is there an easy way to find item L38PPCIZ, which seems to be causing all the trouble? I can delete and recreate it if I can just find it.
  • adamsmith
    You should be able to find it by pasting L38PPCIZ into the quick search bar in "All Fields and Tags" mode.
    Although there's something weird with that item, so not 100% sure that'll work.
  • jlynch00
    First thing I tried. No luck.
  • jlynch00
    Okay, so I exported everything I've modified in the last two days (when the problem started) as a Zotero RDF file. I then deleted those files and reimported them. That left me with one fewer item than before, but no sync error.

    I'll hope I don't have cause to miss the one that disappeared.
  • dstillman Zotero Team
    edited yesterday at 9:10pm
    If you're going to post here, please wait for us to help you instead of doing something we would never recommend that also wipes out any evidence of the problem.
  • dstillman Zotero Team
    But it looks like your Zotero was trying to upload a Newspaper Article item in the trash that was already a child item (note, attachment, or annotation) in the online library. That shouldn't be possible — Zotero itself doesn't allow such conversions — so this is likely due to some plugin or script (from Actions and Tags) that you used.
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