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  • Have tried twice, with partial success... Works again today (thanks to your website rollback?) on:- Android, opera mini browser. Still broken on:- Android, Firefox beta browser. So will use the opera browser for Zotero Web clippings. This is a ma…
  • Okay, that sounds promising. Thank you both! It's probably the 30 day issue, consistent with fresh browser installations 'working' for a while. Will try, and confirm if that works again...
  • zotero version 5.0.60 on windows-10, with latest update to 1803.
  • Thanks, have just tried that. Not quite working FYI, probably due to browser compatibilities. But nearly... So what works (in chrome on windows-10, at researchgate), is to right-click on Download blue button, and open in other tab. that prompts to …
  • Good tip, thanks. Researchgate seems to have changed things so you can't view pdf in browser directly, but you get a way to view it their way in a sub-window (pane). Perhaps trying to control their users. But the other ways you suggest are effectiv…
  • OK, then dragging the pdf to top level first, and then retrieving it's metadata, does work. The previous incomplete entry can then be sent to trash. Thanks, will just remember to repair things that way from now on. Nor sure either how it happened. …
  • Have just tried another windows-10 system, which hasn't yet updated to version 1803 for x64 systems. There, this works in zotero (version 4.0.29.10)! After upgrading to windows-10 release 1803, then the "retrieve metadata" entry disappeared from th…
  • OK, thanks. That was a good tip and easy to do -- have taken a screenshot of the menu now and this is the dropbox link to it :- https://www.dropbox.com/s/79t0ewg6l7a237v/zotero-rightclick-menu-pdf-missing-retrieve-metadata.PNG?dl=0 The option "cre…