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• Thanks for the reply. I was a bit hasty it seems; I've semi-randomly clicked around in options and restarted Forefox twice; now the download dialog reappeared. And yes, I realize now that the import is only for importing references, not the actual s…

  in Zotero now unable to import PDFs Comment by JanneM February 26, 2014
• I thought I was running the 4.0 beta linked above. Of course, I had forgotten to actually restart Firefox so I never tested with the beta. Restarted, and indeed, the search now seems to work fine. This is why I should not be allowed near heavy machi…

  in Search for both included and excluded terms fails Comment by JanneM February 19, 2014
• I search: * Title, contains, "saccade" * Title , does not contain, "bzbzbzbzbzbzb" Works. It seems to give me roughly the same set of documents. I search: * Attachment contents, contains, "saccade" * Attachment contents, does not contain, "bzbzb…

  in Search for both included and excluded terms fails Comment by JanneM February 19, 2014
• Doesn't work. Just searching for something that does not match works, in the sense that I get a list of results. But combining it with something that must be there does not work; it gives me an empty list no matter what the search terms are. Would…

  in Search for both included and excluded terms fails Comment by JanneM February 19, 2014
• OK, I'll try it. One note though: I am almost 100% certain that this used to work at some time (can't tell you when, as updates are transparent). I have relied on doing this before when I do one of my periodic clean-ups of my paper piles.

  in Search for both included and excluded terms fails Comment by JanneM February 19, 2014
• There you go - I missed something obvious :) Thanks!

  in Close attachement arrow thingy to copy to collections Comment by JanneM February 19, 2014
• I'm sorry; since Mystery Checkbox fixes my problem I'll let this go. But I'm still curious about my example above: There really is no point to an exclusion criteria, is there, unless (I guess) you also search for a positive criteria in the same su…

  in Advanced Search has several issues in 4.0.4 Comment by JanneM April 16, 2013
• In my case I was explicitly trying to _exclude_ words in the title. Is there any case where it would make sense to ask to exclude it and still show the related content? What I mean is, say the use-case of lots of notes attached to each biography it…

  in Advanced Search has several issues in 4.0.4 Comment by JanneM April 16, 2013
• I could see an argument that it's less appropriate for searches to show sibling context items, but given the hierarchical nature and the varying and vague ways child items can be named, I think showing the parent context row makes sense. "JSTOR Full…

  in Advanced Search has several issues in 4.0.4 Comment by JanneM April 16, 2013
• that makes sense, yes. Saved search won't help much there. I don't have a great GUI idea to solve this, though, I think it's important to keep the advanced search comprehensive. I guess adaptive menus could be an option? Adaptive menus would be pai…

  in Advanced Search has several issues in 4.0.4 Comment by JanneM April 16, 2013
• Thanks for the quick answer. "couldn't you set that up as a saved search?" Hm, that kind of works, for the specific case when I'm looking for a single keyword. But that's not usually the case, and then I'm back to having to pick out that one crite…

  in Advanced Search has several issues in 4.0.4 Comment by JanneM April 16, 2013