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  • [Developer's Note, 2020: Making changes directly to the Zotero database is strongly discouraged, and absolutely shouldn't be done if you're using Zotero syncing. — D.S] I was in the same situation but had already defined a lot of my own tags, so I …
    in Remove all tags Comment by alexuw February 25, 2009
  • You're welcome. I hope so too. We really need a UI that works in a narrower space, and one way to do it would be relatively straightforward. That would be to display ONLY the collections/tags pane and items list pane. Selecting an item would dis…
    in 3.7 GUI messed up Comment by alexuw February 12, 2009
  • hack, partial work-around: edit the file in your firefox profile dir /chrome/userChrome.css and add: #zotero-item-pane { width: 100px !important; min-width: 100px !important; } and restart ff. now you can resize the item pane (right) to be s…
    in 3.7 GUI messed up Comment by alexuw February 12, 2009
  • Same here. It appears that the middle list can't be narrower than about 440 pixels. If your firefox window isn't wide enough, the content pane (right side) overlaps with the list. I'll provide a screenshot if that helps. The Zotero GUI has alwa…
    in 3.7 GUI messed up Comment by alexuw February 12, 2009
  • Here's a link to the script mentioned by Porreesteiner http://blog.dataunbound.com/2008/12/11/adding-all-tabs-to-zotero-translatable-sites/
    in scripting Zotero using Chickenfoot: some first documentation Comment by alexuw January 15, 2009
  • For more control over how the browser handles PDFs (in general, outside zotero) I recommend the PDF Download plugin. When you click on a PDF the plugin prompts with a choice to download, open with the plugin (inside browser), outside the browser, o…
    in open PDF/attachment in the operating system, not browser? Comment by alexuw January 15, 2009
  • Not exactly what you have in mind, but you can do something like a dedicated instance of firefox for zotero by running it a separate profile. Create a new firefox profile, install zotero, and run your zotero-firefox in a separate instance with a co…
    in Zotero Alternatives Comment by alexuw December 31, 2008
  • Should have said, I haven't shared the database on a usb but I have copied it between several different boxes (same login) with no problems.
    in linux access permissions Comment by alexuw September 18, 2008
  • I'm not exactly an expert on permissions but I think preferably the files should be owned by your login user, not root. Mine are like this (uid alex): -rw-r--r-- 1 alex alex 4144128 2008-09-17 19:46 zotero.sqlite Obviously for this to work you n…
    in linux access permissions Comment by alexuw September 18, 2008
  • would be nice to update this how-to documentation http://www.zotero.org/documentation/locate as the links ("For other OpenURL resolvers") are all broken.
    in How to custom the resolver? Comment by alexuw September 9, 2008
  • Thanks, I never noticed the automatic tag toggle dropdown (it's covered up when the window is narrow). That's good enough for my current needs. Incidentally, you should have just told me to RTFM, it's explained there. :-) http://www.zo…
    in LOC tags vs. user-defined tags Comment by alexuw September 7, 2008
  • I had a similar problem - JSTOR broken after upgrading to Firefox 3. The little red box appeared as if saving the citation, but faded away with no citation saved, no error. -> The solution was to enable "Accept third-party cookies" in FF prefer…
    in Major translation failure after upgrade to FF3.0 Comment by alexuw July 14, 2008