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Ok, so finally all solved -- everything is back and linked properly. Nothing turned out to be wrong with sqlite (I couldn't run the auto checker due to its size) -- solution was as you said on avoiding over-writing: fresh install Zotero 5, update it…
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Cool will try this tomorrow and report back - once again thanks so much.
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And now a longer error: Database upgrade error Error: Error(s) encountered during statement execution: database disk image is malformed [QUERY: DELETE FROM libraries WHERE libraryID != 0 AND libraryID NOT IN (SELECT libraryID FROM groups)] [PARAMS…
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Just the loading bar -- and the sqfile and sqfile journal files haven't updated / been marked as modified. Report ID is 2037335801 - though didn't report any errors.
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Erm I may have spoken too soon -- the upgrade completed, my library was back (of course with none of the extensions), set the data directory back to the external drive path, closed Zotero, copied everything back to my external data directory and ove…
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Excellent - so that has worked for me; update over and everything has appeared again. Thanks again for all your help -- perhaps then it's a glitch with external drives...
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Great thanks - am doing that now and seems to be running ok on the main disk, sqlite/sqlite-journal are recently modified and sqlite journal is getting gradually larger in size. Had attempted to adjust it via the preferences while the upgrade was ru…
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Ah ok excellent - must have been something else that screwed it up that time. I've looked at the 'moving the data directory' info, but just to double check, should I just put everything from the old directory -- all files, sub-folders (except 'stora…
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Ah ok that's handy. So my current approach has been to try to get it to do the database upgrade on my external harddrive data directory and just let it run, with a 3 August version of sqlite (again, prior to when I downloaded the update on 4 August)…
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Yes it seems that the beta install thought the data directory was in the Program Files x86\Zotero, I double checked and allowed file permissions for that folder, and it's now 'upgrading the database' so probably will give me a new error message soon.
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Yes, have been trying to fix this - as far as I can tell, all the files are write-permitted, there's no administrator privilege, and can't think of any security software that would stop it. Will keep trying. It's a bit odd that it was a different er…
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So I'm now getting the 'The Zotero database cannot be opened. Make sure you have read and write permissions for all files in the Zotero data directory.' error only. I've put the contents of the old data directory, besides the storage folder, into th…
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Yep I'd realised that -- I've tried to allow permissions to that folder, and also have the Users\Username\Zotero folder with the sqlite file in it too, but that doesn't seem to help. Sorry I should also have mentioned that while I can move most of…
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I've also now tried downgrading to Zotero 4 as per instructions in another thread, with a fresh install, and that won't open at all giving me an error message about not being able to open the zotero data directory and not having permissions.
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Many thanks to you both - Ive attempted the upgrade on my hard-drive, after moving the data directory. I think I did this as you suggested Dan - same error message popped up almost immediately this time. Then upgraded to the latest version, then got…
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Many thanks again for all your help - am running it again and will do the real-time debug output if it fails again; and yep I suspect the fresh install is going to be the best move. Thanks again!!
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OK just got this error message, and options to Check for Update or Quit: Database upgrade error Error: Transaction timeout, most likely caused by unresolved pending work. ConnectionData.prototype resource://zotero/bluebird/promise.js:232:9 …
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Haha - it certainly is, about 20k items, lots of far too detailed pdf scans. The upgrade still seems to be chugging away -- the sqlite-journal file is now at 774mb so it's building at about 10 or so mb a minute-- will just let it run and report back…
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1.2gb, now at 2gb
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Yep Standalone is installed on an external hard drive; the SQLite-journal file has been recently modified, and the main SQLite filed has become about 800mb larger than the backup I saved a few hours ago when the problem started. Might be best to jus…
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Thanks very much -- as far as I can tell I don't have Zotero for Firefox (or the connector) installed; I just use Standalone, and Zotero doesn't appear to be in my firefox plugins. I do use firefox and have closed it now, just in case.
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Update, the text 'upgrading database' has reappeared - I'm going to leave it run for a while (has been going for about 15 minutes now) and see what happens.
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Thanks @adamsmith that's probably the easiest solution -- I might keep using the collated version then separate it into individual files, update the fields and remove the field codes then re-collate at the final stages (will need to do minor editing…
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This gets close to solving the issue I have. I need to restart the footnote numbering in each section/chapter of a single document. Restarting the citation numbers via word works fine, but Zotero treats the FNs as consecutively numbered and links th…
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Yep on Windows using standalone v 4.0.21.2. No problems at all,
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Thanks for that - just experimented a bit then. It does remove the files if they are selected using shift but shift is not held while they are dragged into Zotero. It doesn't remove them if multiple files are selected using ctrl and clicking on each…