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• I just noticed that in ~zotero/pipes there is an empty file which has some random number as name. It disappears when Firefox is closed. Could it be that this works like a lock file and deleting it could avoid the messy workaround described above?

  in Cannot access zotero Comment by northsun November 4, 2015
• By trial and error I worked out the following workaround: - Uninstall the Zotero plugin - Close Firefox - Move zotero folder from ~.mozilla/firefox/randomname/zotero to external harddisk - Reinstall Zotero plugin - Point Zotero to new z…

  in Cannot access zotero Comment by northsun November 4, 2015
• I just updated to the latest English Firefox version, so now I get the same message in English: "Your Zotero database is currently in use. Only one instance of Zotero using the same database may be opened simultaneously at this time. If Zotero …

  in Cannot access zotero Comment by northsun November 3, 2015
• I get exactly the same error message as Skopperman.

  in Cannot access zotero Comment by northsun November 3, 2015
• @Adam: I have the same problem. I have used Zotero very happily for a year now, and suddenly I cannot access my Zotero database anymore, except via the Zotero webpage. Only difference: in my case Zotero did not crash before the access blocking. …

  in Cannot access zotero Comment by northsun November 2, 2015
• I just discovered by accident that separating the authors by line breaks does the trick.

  in Add many authors at once Comment by northsun July 17, 2014
• Dan, thanks for your feedback. However, I did not work for me. I copied the comma separated list of authors from the title page of a report to a text editor. I then added tabs between the first and last names like you recommended. (So authors…

  in Add many authors at once Comment by northsun July 17, 2014
• Seems I display unanticipated user behaviour. ;-) When Zotero is unable to extract pdf metadata (mostly for conference proceedings and technical reports) it is less work to copy the first and last name in one go. I will have to discipline mysel…

  in Sorting in library window depends on the way author data was entered Comment by northsun July 16, 2014
• I second that. For me the short form for conference names would be especially useful.

  in Short form fields Comment by northsun July 16, 2014
• I agree. Author keywords give a rough description of the topic of the paper, whereas tags can be used to categorise references according to your own system. For example, I use them to indicate for which project and workpackage a publication is usefu…

  in Differentiate author'skeywords from my added tags. Comment by northsun July 16, 2014
• I agree with Marks first point. In my own collection I have my own, somewhat loose, rules for Tags, that are convenient to me, but probably not very useful for somebody else. At the same time one of the groups that I am in there has strict con…

  in Improving group libraries: see who added what and whether items exists in my local library Comment by northsun July 16, 2014
• Any progress on this issue? There is still no dataset type in my freshly installed Zotero.

  in Which item type for statistics and databases? Comment by northsun July 11, 2014
• "the pane doesn't open as long as you have Zotero Standalone open. That's by design. " Took me a while to find this useful note. A little browser pop-up window that tells why the Zotero pane does not open will probably save a lot of Zotero user…

  in Firefox Zotero pane doesn't work Comment by northsun July 11, 2014
• The last few months I have sent several emails regarding payment methods for a storage upgrade, I never got a reply.

  in Storage Upgrade Not working Comment by northsun June 27, 2014