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Thank you very much, @bwiernik ! That did not occur to me. Just the answer I needed.
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@dstillman I'm hoping that you can assist with this. I have upgraded to Catalina, and have a copy of Zotero in /Applications. I am getting the same bad behavior that @jacobpeacock reported (two copies of Zotero start, one claims to be trying to in…
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@bwiernik Thank you so much for cluing me in! I was pretty sure that this was possible with Better Bibtex, but my Search fu was just too weak to find the solution. Really appreciate the response.
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@bwiernik You are right that Zotero accepts this. What happened to me is that Better BibTeX did not handle this. What went wrong was actually an *export* error, not a Zotero error. [Sorry to have taken so long to get back about this -- I just got…
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Just a quick comment -- I have this issue, too. I'm citing AI Magazine, which is a quarterly. The issue is "Summer", but it is also issue number 2, so I don't have the "issue" field to shove the quarter into.
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The behavior still occurs, after I have quit Word. D1774958114
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I got a debug ID with Word, Safari, and Zotero all running: D676748957. I'll see if I can replicate the error with Word not running.
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I do have Word open, although this does not happen when Safari is closed. I will collect a Debug ID, and then see if I can replicate the behavior when Word is closed. Looking at Word, I can see how the Zotero toolbar triggers this behavior. Presu…
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Thanks! Got it!
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Yes, the scrolling while dragging doesn't work so well, because I have over 20 years of citations here! But the temporary collection is a great idea, thanks!
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I also found that ZotFile would let me move stuff to my tablet for reading and annotation! Brilliant! Now all I need is to actually find time to read things again!
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OK, never mind! Now I see that I was doing the wrong thing. I created a tag, "ReadMe", then made a saved search for that tag and now I have a saved search of items to read, and my problem is solved. I was using a collection where I should have used…
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OK, now I think I understand. I was confused about the link-ness. I assumed that the URI would just be written into the Zotero record. But that is not what happens: instead a separate record, a link, is added as an attachment. In that case, the …
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Thanks to everyone for the suggestions, especially @pjweiss for the neat work-around. @dstillman I don't know that much about the internals of Zotero, so this might be a dumb suggestion, but how about: 1. Changing the wording on the command item t…
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Thank you! Never occurred to me (although it should have). I guess next time it's better to find the paper, then select the Zotero entry and use the URI command to add?
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Thank you, @adamsmith -- that's exactly what I was looking for.
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@emilianoheyns Would you mind letting me know what these two malformed references are (either here or in the github ticket)? Thanks!
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I have tested my input file, and it definitely works much better. But there are also some entries in the bib file that don't show up in the database, both with standard Zotero import and Better Bibtex. I found a bunch of bugs in the bib file (that…
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@emilianoheyns The hang happened on Zotero without BBT. Without BBT I get no error, some but not all of the bib file is successfully imported, and the import hangs (at least that's how I interpret the fact that the import progress window never goes…
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@emilianoheyns It's importing without throwing an error dialog, but it's not completing the import -- the window showing the progress circle never gets erased. I'm not sure what that means in terms of the status of Zotero.
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@adamsmith I tried this with stock Zotero after BBT failed to parse this file, just raising an error that, AFAICT, simply said "there's something bad somewhere in this file." Possibly stupid question: is there some reason the bibtex importers coul…
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This page states that parens are ok to delimit bibtex entries, and they have always worked for me: http://artis.imag.fr/~Xavier.Decoret/resources/xdkbibtex/bibtex_summary.html
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@dstillman The absolute worst case is 16 times if you are looking for a single entry. If there are multiple entries then the log bound doesn't obviously apply...
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I believe I have found the point in my Bibtex file where things go awry. I have canonical names for authors as BibTex "@string" definitions. So my file has something that looks like this in it: @techreport(McDermott:72, author = MCDERMOTT # { an…
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@adamsmith Yes, as far as I can tell, there's nothing in the log that gives line numbers in a failing import. Given how crufty hand-written bib files are, I'm actually surprised that there aren't more problems like mine. bibtex will typically run …
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I wonder if anything in the above suggested ways I could try to fix my bibliography file to be importable. Thanks!
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Sorry -- I'm an idiot and forgot to paste it in. Here it is: D390155511
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OK, I disabled Better Bibtex and tried again with my ai.bib file. It hung importing (the little "Importing... ai.bib" window continued to show, but stopped updating, and the debug window stopped showing new input). The last item in the debug log t…
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OK, I'll have a look at the code, and maybe I can see where the file slurping happens. It just seems odd that parsing failures don't yield error messages tied to lines. But I don't understand the internals, so...
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I am not claiming that this is necessarily a Zotero bug -- it could quite well be a bug in my bib files. I just don't know what to do about it, if it is. Is there some way to determine what line of a bib file is causing an error on import? The de…