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Yes, I saw the troubleshooting page, but didn't fix my two problem computers till I had tried odds and ends from the forums. Might be something I missed, but: The --config java isn't on the troubleshooting page (is it really necessary? I don't kn…
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Well, looks like I tripped myself up when I unintentionally erased the conference names. But, it also seems there was more going on than simply adding a field--I used to be able to print conference names from the Conference Paper entry type, and no…
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Thanks for your reply adamsmith. It's helpful, but I don't know quite how to address the problems this creates for my bibliography. Most conferences in my three academic fields do not have published proceedings, but we do deliver conference …
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Just to clarify: I do not see the conference name when I paste the bibliography directly from Zotero in Firefox into a file (right-click; Create Bibliography from Selected Item...). I am unable to test whether the conference name appears in OpenOf…
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Thanks Dan for your help and the reassurance that simply upgrading Zotero won't cause data loss! I'm also glad to hear that .rdf will no longer lose conference names. If I kept up w/ the bboards and zotero website perhaps I would have known this w…
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Dan: Just saw your post. That may well be what happened. When i switched to the Zotero 2 beta, I may have used an export to .rtf and reimport to put pieces of my library from different computers together. A little odd, though, that it would take…
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I think I'm beginning to see how this might have happened. I was able to find a copy of the zotero .rtf of my main academic library I kept from a year ago (I suspect this is a backup I made before I switched to the beta version that allowed online …
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Perfect, thanks! Peter
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Ok, I took the plunge and installed Zotero 2.0. Looks marvelous, just a wee nervous about the "Beta" thing. I'll back up the database w/ Firefox closed. The idea of keeping notes private would be a good one--I have some nasty comments in plac…
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Ah, quotation marks--great tip! Thanks arggem. I wonder if the general idea here is that the software framework on which this is built will get faster over the next few years. Hopefully. Peter
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Good advice! Incidentally, I wonder whether anyone else is having issues with speed? I've got about 1500 references many with copious notes. The search function or even opening and closing the Zotero window in Firefox is sluggish, despite b…
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Thanks fbennett! It's reassuring to know that these problems are being fixed, given that I'm now committed to Linux, my work requires a good bibliography program, and Zotero is the only good bibliography program for Linux (unless I have the time to…
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Another glitch the Zotero team should consider: When I copy and paste text from one document to another, the bookmarked citations I inserted become inactive. I can no longer 'edit citation' (I get an error that brings up an OO Basic command window…
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Hi Adam: Thanks for the reply! I don't see any warnings about .doc files not being able to handle reference marks. All one's citations disappearing for a paper on which one has been working for hours is a bit of a shocker. There really should be…
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Seems that one work-around for me, given that I have to submit my paper in .doc format, would be to use Bookmarks rather than ReferenceMarks. But the window for selecting Bookmarks has this to say: "Bookmarks are preserved across Microsoft Word an…
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It may also be good to have some automated or manual backup mechanism as well. I don't know how this happened, but a collection (and several subcollections) I had spent a lot of time putting together have completely disappeared from my copy of Zote…
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I write for a range of interdisciplinary journals. Zotero's will become practical for the work I do when a user-friendly interface becomes available to allow creation of styles. Till then, let me 2nd the call for a range of political science style…
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Thanks bdarcus, that's very helpful! Whew, now to find the time....
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The main thing holding up my using Zotero is the absence of any styles for my field (political science). I'm tempted to try to write my own style, but have never programmed in XML before. Two questions: is there somewhere I could see examples of …
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Hmm, it looks to me like exporting items from My Library w/ a 'select all' probably won't preserve collections. Is there any way of exporting that would duplicate on my PC what's on my laptop with only a single export?
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Suppose I do want to export all of my zotero information from my laptop to my PC. Should I then select all in the My Library 2nd column window and right click to export? Currently when I select the 'Action' wheel and say export library, it exports…
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BTW, I did finally find a syncing setup that works between my PC and Mac. I simply export in Zotero's RDF format to a directory that gets copied whenever I rsync files between my PC and Mac and then import it into the Mac's Zotero. Seems to work n…
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Hi folks: Glad to see my comments were of some help. Dan, I'm using Endnote 6.0.2. I believe I was trying to import RIS. Once I convert the line endings in BBEdit to Mac endings, I have no trouble importing. Maybe I just have a hopelessly…
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Oops, nevermind, I see that there's a hard to see tab control that allows someone to switch the mode of the field from author to contributor or editor. Now if I only knew what the differences were between these....
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I'm a bit puzzled about editors. When I try to add a book section by hand, I can add authors of the book section, but I don't see a field for the editors of the book, which is information that must be reported in most bibliographic styles. When I …
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Interesting discussion of duplicates, but here's a more immediate practical issue: I'm taking notes on several chapters in an edited volume. In Endnotes, I'd copy / paste one of the chapters, duplicating it, and then edited the information to refl…
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Let me second that. Zotero is an exceptional piece of software and will be extremely useful for research. The only thing preventing me from using it right now is its inability to handle abstracts, which are crucial for researchers. Beyond that, i…