Upgrade Storagecitations misplaced after upgrade to zotero 2.1.
I apologise for reposting my query from 10th April (see http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/17501/citations-misplaced-after-upgrade-to-zotero-21/), but I have only now - after a few weeks of holiday - discovered that the problem described below is far worse than I had initially thought as it affects the entire 40,000 word document, not just parts of it. This is a major cock-up and likely to force me to manually reinsert every single citation.
So please, does anyone have the same problem and/or some advice on how to deal with it, especially how to avoid it in the future? My gratitude would be boundless!
Some weeks ago I upgraded to zotero 2.1 and since then there appear to be a number of more or less serious issues with a rather large document (40,000 word) that I had started using an older version. (BTW I use OO 3.2.0, Firefox 3.6.12, and the OpenOffice plugin.) (Actually, so far I have had no opportunity to check whether the following errors persist with a newly created document.)
Some issues are harmless, such as the duplication of citations, e.g.: "Barlev/Haddad (2003, p. 398-403)(2003, p. 398-403) are an exception."
Also unproblematic is the fact that sometimes I am prompted to start Firefox when inserting/editing a citation, even though Firefox IS open. Restarting always works.
More worrisome is the fact that references appear to have been exchanged or have somehow gotten confused. An example:
"Lately, this distinction has also been applied to the field of accounting standards, namely by Nölke/Perry (Flower, 1997; Hoarau, 1995; Nobes, 2003; for critique see Alexander & Archer, 2000)."
The reference here is to Nölke/Perry, therefore nothing but dates and pages should appear in the zotero citation in brackets. The reference to Flower, Hoarau and the others does appear (or rather should appear) at a different place in the document, which is why it seems as if zotero (or the OpenOffice integration) has simply misplaced the citations. The interesting thing is that this has not happened throughout the document but only in certain sections.
I have already updated to the latest Zotero version (2.1.5), but no change. Is there any way of correcting that last problem? It would save me the trouble of reinserting a fair few citations.
Cheers,
Julian
So please, does anyone have the same problem and/or some advice on how to deal with it, especially how to avoid it in the future? My gratitude would be boundless!
Some weeks ago I upgraded to zotero 2.1 and since then there appear to be a number of more or less serious issues with a rather large document (40,000 word) that I had started using an older version. (BTW I use OO 3.2.0, Firefox 3.6.12, and the OpenOffice plugin.) (Actually, so far I have had no opportunity to check whether the following errors persist with a newly created document.)
Some issues are harmless, such as the duplication of citations, e.g.: "Barlev/Haddad (2003, p. 398-403)(2003, p. 398-403) are an exception."
Also unproblematic is the fact that sometimes I am prompted to start Firefox when inserting/editing a citation, even though Firefox IS open. Restarting always works.
More worrisome is the fact that references appear to have been exchanged or have somehow gotten confused. An example:
"Lately, this distinction has also been applied to the field of accounting standards, namely by Nölke/Perry (Flower, 1997; Hoarau, 1995; Nobes, 2003; for critique see Alexander & Archer, 2000)."
The reference here is to Nölke/Perry, therefore nothing but dates and pages should appear in the zotero citation in brackets. The reference to Flower, Hoarau and the others does appear (or rather should appear) at a different place in the document, which is why it seems as if zotero (or the OpenOffice integration) has simply misplaced the citations. The interesting thing is that this has not happened throughout the document but only in certain sections.
I have already updated to the latest Zotero version (2.1.5), but no change. Is there any way of correcting that last problem? It would save me the trouble of reinserting a fair few citations.
Cheers,
Julian
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http://www.zotero.org/support/word_processor_plugin_troubleshooting#debugging_broken_documents
For documentation I have copied below an example from the problematic document that might show more clearly the confusion or miscommunication that seems to have occurred between the OpenOffice plugin and the Zotero database. I copied and pasted a small section from it into a new document and created a bibliography. This shows that there is really a misallocation of zotero references to the text.
I am happy to provide more detailed descriptions of the problem if that would be of any help.
This is what it should have looked like (including bibliogrpahy):
At the other extreme would be the expert interview proper: asking accountants about their professional opinions on accounting matters. The former is clearly the approach of Hanlon (1994) and, to a lesser extent perhaps, Gill (2009), while my own interviews were a bit more mixed in that they both referred to technical as well as life world matters.
Gill, Matthew. 2009. Accountants’ Truth: Knowledge and Ethics in the Financial World. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Hanlon, Gerard. 1994. The Commercialisation of Accountancy: Flexible Accumulation and the Transformation of the Service Class. New York: St. Martin’s Press.
This is the corrupted version including bibliography:
At the other extreme would be the expert interview proper: asking accountants about their professional opinions on accounting matters. The former is clearly the approach of Hanlon (2009) and, to a lesser extent perhaps, Gill (Goldstein 2002; Kincaid and Bright 1957; Welch, Marschan-Piekkari, Penttinen, and Tahvanainen 2002), while my own interviews were a bit more mixed in that they both referred to technical as well as life world matters.
Gill, Matthew. 2009. Accountants’ Truth: Knowledge and Ethics in the Financial World. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Goldstein, Kenneth. 2002. “Getting in the Door: Sampling and Completing Elite Interviews.” PS: Political Science & Politics 35(4): 669-672.
Kincaid, Harry V., and Margaret Bright. 1957. “Interviewing the Business Elite.” The American Journal of Sociology 63(3): 304-311.
Welch, Catherine, Rebecca Marschan-Piekkari, Heli Penttinen, and Marja Tahvanainen. 2002. “Corporate elites as informants in qualitative international business research.” International Business Review 11(5): 611-628.
If you check your messages on zotero.org and send me mail, I can provide you with a private copy of Zotero 2.1.6 that contains the latest version of the CSL processor. There is a possibility, at least, that your issue has been addressed by some recent fixes, and it would be good to know whether that is so.