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• Is it possible to build up to a working sync by breaking up a large database (say 20,000 items) in to pieces and then importing them? Or is the problem that the server will simply not sync the big databases?

  in first sync error Comment by breckenr June 29, 2009
• Adam Crymble kindly created a translator for the South African National Archives. As it stands the translator leaves out the "Source" which happens to be key. I've changed his translator, and it now works nicely. I sent it to support@zotero witho…

  in Which site translators would you like to see? Comment by breckenr June 24, 2009
• Thanks Dan. Alas, no luck using 2.0b5. I still get "Error processing uploaded data 6887df20" Good luck.

  in first sync error Comment by breckenr June 10, 2009
• I'm still getting an error on initial upload of 7000 records - but it is now specified: Error processing uploaded data Report ID cbfc2351.

  in first sync error Comment by breckenr June 3, 2009
• I think that a subscription feature would be excellent, but I'd also like an intermediate sharing ability. (I know that the ideal of the commons is key to Zotero, but for many active researchers, especially new ones, it is daunting to share an entir…

  in Twitter/rss like option Comment by breckenr April 4, 2009
• I haven't yet managed to synchronize my large database (9500 items). I suspect that this is, still, a timeout issue on the Zotero server as I can get it to work with smaller fragments of the database. zotero(5): REPLACE INTO version VALUES ('last…

  in Internal server error Comment by breckenr March 17, 2009
• To repeat, in the hope that I can move this along: Is there a limited list of all the possible fields that must meet this length requirement? Author, tags, publisher, date?

  in first sync error Comment by breckenr February 6, 2009
• I'm also still getting the Empty Response from Server error on a large database. Is there a limited list of all the possible fields that must meet this length requirement? Author, tags, publisher, date? Last bit of log output is below: …

  in first sync error Comment by breckenr February 2, 2009
• I'm having the same issue (after clearing server data, resetting the lock and the client data). My database is also large, about 9000 entries. I've sent the debug data through to support at zotero. Thanks for your excellent work on this.

  in first sync error Comment by breckenr October 12, 2008
• I'm sorry to be a nuisance about this but the translator for http://www.national.archives.gov.za (which is potentially fantastic) currently leaves out the "Source" -- this is the office that has produced the archival record -- LTG is Lieutenant Gove…

  in Which site translators would you like to see?, take 2 Comment by breckenr October 6, 2008
• Thank you, very much indeed, for the South African National Archives translator. This is really a huge step forward. The translator currently leaves out the "Source" -- this is the office that has produced the archival record -- LTG is Lieuten…

  in Which site translators would you like to see?, take 2 Comment by breckenr September 14, 2008
• I strongly support this.

  in View an attached FreeMind file Comment by breckenr September 1, 2008
• sean: I'm running XP on an HP DX2000 with a single P4 3Ghz and 1Gb of Ram. Dan: I'm using 1.5 preview (trunk, blush) at the moment on Firefox 3 (and it is much better than 1.07) but still slow on many things. erazlogo: I have begun to …

  in limit on number of items Comment by breckenr August 5, 2008
• I'm using Zotero with a collection of about 9000 items. In general I think that it works (it has functionality) much, much better than Endnote. The relational tools (tags, folders, attachments, related items) allow for a much more systematic and …

  in limit on number of items Comment by breckenr August 4, 2008
• @Acrymble -- South African National Archives Translator Thank you for picking this up. Will the translator install itself automatically, or do I need to do that manually? I've many questions but I'll wait a little to see how the translator wo…

  in Which site translators would you like to see?, take 2 Comment by breckenr July 30, 2008
• The database has 4970 items, some of them with notes up to 10,000 characters. This is a copy of my 'real' research database, about half of which is a list of archival files or folders and the other half is documents. I'd say that its probably rep…

  in Internal server error Comment by breckenr July 17, 2008
• Support for the output from the South African National Archives (http://www.national.archsrch.gov.za/sm300cv/smws/sm300dl) would change the world. This is a standardized database of all catalogued records in all repositories in South Africa.

  in Which site translators would you like to see?, take 2 Comment by breckenr July 17, 2008
• The South African national archives system is unusually systematic (one of the benefits of Verwoerd's science obsessed state), and built around an early IBM document management system originally called STAIRS (now NAIRS). It's a very large flat fi…

  in Styling archival material Comment by breckenr June 1, 2008
• To answer my own question (after five days of battling): The best option is to use the Mods xml syntax, wrapping it around the Access fields. If you have a large Access database with large Memo fields you cannot export the contents as a re…

  in Making Zotero work for historians doing archival research Comment by breckenr May 29, 2008
• Can I ask you to elaborate a little on how one might achieve this at the moment? I have an Access database with about two thousand records. It's in a relational arrangement but I can easily produce the flat file format necessary to import to…

  in Making Zotero work for historians doing archival research Comment by breckenr May 24, 2008