Zotero stopped working - Item[termvar] unidentified

kiwisappleslimes
Hi,

Zotero suddenly stopped inserting citations and does not update the bibliography. I am getting the error message "Trouble updating the document - Item[termvar] unidentified". Everything works fine in a new word-docx and elimination of recent citations and/or bibliography does not help.

Could this be an error with my devStyle, as described in: http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/17180/problems-exporting-bibligraphy-and-others/? And if it is - where do I start trying to fix this?

One week ago I experienced a similar error and had to reinsert all citations manually. I would be so relieved, if I knew how to fix this, since my deadline is running towards me.

Thank you in advance for any hint and thank you for providing zotero!

Debug ID is D1950283581
Mac OSX 10.6.7
Office/Word 2011
Zotero 2.1.6 with compatible Word PlugIn
Style: my own version of DIN 1505-2 (dev), CSL 1.0
  • adamsmith
    It could be - have you validated your style?
  • kiwisappleslimes
    Hi Adam,

    thank you for the instant reply - yes I did and just checked again to be sure:

    "The document validates according to the specified schema(s) and to additional constraints checked by the validator."

    Any thoughts?

    Thanks again
    kiwi
  • kiwisappleslimes
    ...although wait - if I don´t check "Be lax about HTTP Content-Type" it says: IO Error: Non-XML Content-Type: text/plain.
  • adamsmith
    no, that's normal, it's almost certainly not your style then.
    I'd suggest making a back-up copy of your document and database and installing the branch xpi
    http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/svn_and_trac_access#zotero_client_dev_xpis
    it includes several processor fixes and might just take care of this.
    You can/should revert to the regular Zotero once 2.1.7 comes out, but at this point the branch isn't particularly risky to install.
  • kiwisappleslimes
    thank you so much, it worked like a charm! You just made my day :)
  • adamsmith
    cool - remember that you will have to manually revert to zotero 2.1.7 once it comes out (i.e. install it from the homepage) - you don't want to permanently work with the branch.
  • kiwisappleslimes
    OK, I`ll do that.

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