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• I created the whole collection from scratch. I filled all sub-collections manually and then did Metadata retrieval. After that I noticed there are more than 200 items in the "Unfiled items". Many are duplicate items. How did they get there? What's t…

  in Unfiled items Comment by jz77f August 2, 2017
• This is my first day with Zotero. One issue after another (now it's the hanging Exporting items message). I do appreciate the effort of making this great piece of software, but until it works flawlessly, I'll return to Mendeley.

  in Hanging Exporting Items message Comment by jz77f August 1, 2017
• I am surprised that the issue of metadata retrieval is know since 2009 and hasn't been fixed. To be specific, if I select all papers in my folder and click "Retrieve metadata for PDF", often it just hangs for hours, i.e., forever. Would it be possib…

  in PDF Metadata Import hangs Comment by jz77f August 1, 2017
• Mendeley has an option to mark an item as "Needs Review" and then you can click on Search in Details to re-scan the metadata from the web. Most of the time it fills empty fields correctly. In fact, that was the reason I chose to use Mendeley over Zo…

  in one-click update metadata for a zotero object Comment by jz77f August 1, 2017