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• Noticed this happening today so I did the debugging step. Captured a few instances of the words I was typing disappearing. Sent to Zotero and Debug ID is D2081051489.

  in Disappearing text when adding bib info to items in Zotero Desktop Comment by mmallekfws July 14, 2025
• Just chiming in to say this has also been happening to me for the past few weeks. I did try to uninstall and reinstall Adobe. I'm running 7.0.16 (64-bit) Zotero. I am a federal employee so I don't have control over the exact way Adobe or Windows wor…

  in Windows Application Error "The memory could not be read" opening PDF with Acrobat Comment by mmallekfws July 10, 2025
• Back again. Had a break at work to try and create the Debug ID and - it seems to be working normally again! I am surprised because it wasn't that I had just started Zotero after working elsewhere or anything. But, I feel like it's resolved for now. …

  in Disappearing text when adding bib info to items in Zotero Desktop Comment by mmallekfws June 26, 2025
• Ok, if I disable auto-sync, it works normally. I can live with that! Do you still want a debug ID? The behavior happens if I turn auto-sync back on, so I can do that if it would be useful.

  in Disappearing text when adding bib info to items in Zotero Desktop Comment by mmallekfws June 26, 2025
• Yes! Started troubleshooting mode, made a new bib entry from an orphan PDF. Initial title was: Rist 2014b (from underlying PDF) Started typing in the correct title (Water Wars Pt. 1) It let me type then did the weird refresh thing, making the title…

  in Disappearing text when adding bib info to items in Zotero Desktop Comment by mmallekfws June 26, 2025
• OK thanks. I think we would just start out not linking things, or not syncing the attachments to the web. It looks like it's easier to get an email address than a subscription. Thank you for all your help!

  in Complicated(?) use case, not sure best strategy for solving Comment by mmallekfws November 19, 2019
• OK, so if I can get a new email, then after that point I can make an "office" account and transfer ownership of our fledgling group to that account. Is there any reason it would be important to make the office account first? Or can a few of us test …

  in Complicated(?) use case, not sure best strategy for solving Comment by mmallekfws November 19, 2019
• OK, that's good to know. It maybe a significant administrative hurdle to make the purchase, but I'll ask about it. It seems like in the meantime it would be good to set up an account to be the "office" account, regardless. To set up a single accoun…

  in Complicated(?) use case, not sure best strategy for solving Comment by mmallekfws November 19, 2019
• Hi! Thanks for responding so fast! :) Just looking at the literature folder on our share drive, it's currently 15.6 GB. Is the file storage truly unlimited? We have a lot of old scanned documents that probably explain some of the hugeness, but als…

  in Complicated(?) use case, not sure best strategy for solving Comment by mmallekfws November 18, 2019