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• I had restarted, yes. Your suggestion didn't solve the problem, but it led me in the right direction—it turns out that there were some weird ACL settings on the files in my Zotero bibliography folder. (No idea how that happened, but given some of t…

  in There was an error starting Zotero: Standalone and browser extension Comment by dfb23 April 9, 2012
• My Zotero data directory is in a folder I created so that it's all easier for me to find: ~/Documents/Research resources/Zotero bibliography. Disabling all security software (including the built-in firewall, for good measure, though I don't know ho…

  in There was an error starting Zotero: Standalone and browser extension Comment by dfb23 April 9, 2012
• Right. But if you're working on a long document it's easy to forget that you need to add something. Yes, I know, I could put a sticky note on my desk—but that kind of defeats the purpose of having the program to do the remembering for me, you know? …

  in Author-date without author or date Comment by dfb23 February 1, 2011
• Oh, I know the interleaving of editors and authors doesn't make a difference in the end (although, for the citation style I use most often, the order of editors would)--like I said, it just makes visually scanning through the entry less intuitive. …

  in Reordering creators Comment by dfb23 October 15, 2009