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  in Zotero could not perform this action. Please ensure that a document is open. Comment by pbragge January 29, 2024
• tim820 thanks that worked a treat!

  in Export ALL author names from a folder Comment by pbragge November 2, 2023
• I tried it and it seems to work but it's doing the entire folder, not the subcollection. How do I just export a subcollection without all the parent folders?

  in Export ALL author names from a folder Comment by pbragge November 2, 2023
• Hi dstillman - thanks again for the code. I've now run it across the library (had to do it in a few batches) and it has now fully synced with the online version - no mean feat with a library over 10,000 citations!

  in cannot sync because creator name is too long Comment by pbragge February 7, 2023
• it's the 'first' name field that is too long. Thanks for the code - it has worked on a single item! now running it for the library. Return msg below Checking Challenging the politics of the "model minority" stereotype: A case for educational equali…

  in cannot sync because creator name is too long Comment by pbragge February 6, 2023
• The problem is in the 'editor' field. Here's an example; Editor first name field: Apple Editor second name field: Apple Apple Asher Bell Bennett Bennett Brand Cabezas Chan Chan Chin Chun Coleman Crystal Freeman Fuller Greer Hamamota Herrnstein Hoa…

  in cannot sync because creator name is too long Comment by pbragge February 6, 2023
• Thanks - I forgot to unpause syncing before running the code. Once it got going again I encountered the original problem again. So I turned sync off and ran the code on the item flagged in isolation, then the whole library. Both times I got the same…

  in cannot sync because creator name is too long Comment by pbragge February 6, 2023
• So having run the original code from dstillman I still cannot sync the library. The error messages have gone, but the online version of the library has only 1034 citations; the desktop version has over 10,000. The syncing seems stuck.

  in cannot sync because creator name is too long Comment by pbragge February 6, 2023
• I have disabled syncing, selected all the articles in the library and run the code. All that happens is I get the message "===>undefined

  in cannot sync because creator name is too long Comment by pbragge February 3, 2023
• ps I have run the code but it doesn't seem to have done anything. the message I get is "===>undefined

  in cannot sync because creator name is too long Comment by pbragge February 1, 2023
• Thanks for this. I'll try the code. Our experienced librarian generates the .ris files from the database searches. I take your point that we should follow up with the database; however it seems that other reference managers can handle this. I export…

  in cannot sync because creator name is too long Comment by pbragge February 1, 2023
• There are numerous other refs preceded by 'M1'

  in cannot sync because creator name is too long Comment by pbragge February 1, 2023
• I have reproduced the error with a direct import from the .ris file into a shared document collection. The field generating the error is the 'editor' field which should not even exist for a journal article, and especially since the journal article i…

  in cannot sync because creator name is too long Comment by pbragge February 1, 2023
• I know this is not to do with endnote because previous uploads direct into Zotero have had the same issue. I can send you the information you require shortly.

  in cannot sync because creator name is too long Comment by pbragge February 1, 2023
• Thanks for the quick response. It's a complex ask because there were three databases searched, and (owing to Zotero's inability to remove duplicates in batches and the size of this library which is for a bibliographic analysis) the library has been …

  in cannot sync because creator name is too long Comment by pbragge February 1, 2023
• I am having this issue with a library of about 10,000 citations that I would like to share. Is there a way to delete the 'editor' field on a batch level i.e. delete all editor fields from all refs in a collection? Or another fix?

  in cannot sync because creator name is too long Comment by pbragge February 1, 2023