188BET靠谱吗you are on a custom Zotero build Zotero 4.0.27.SOURCE - BetterBibTeX broke

moritzklenk

since I dowloaded 4.0.27 I can no longer export to Better BibTeX.188BET靠谱吗When I start Zotero it says "Better BibTeX has been disabled because it found Zotero 4.0.27.SOURCE, but requires 4.0.27 or later."
This totally broke everything I relied on and I don't know how to fix it.
188BET靠谱吗I tried to download Zotero (Standalone Mac, btw.) again from the website not via the update function, but no change.
188BET靠谱吗I disabled Better BibTex restarted Zotero, enabled it again, restarted - no change.
I need help, please.

adamsmith

You should be able to force better bibtex to still run in the add-ons.This is a labeling issue, not an actual incompatibility.

moritzklenk

ok.they fixed that by updating the add-on.Now I still get java-script errors.I checked a few items - they have caused no troubles so far, but for some reasons cannot get exported now.

[JavaScript Error: "Error connecting to server.188BET靠谱吗Check your Internet connection." {file: "chrome://zotero/content/xpcom/sync.js" line: 2566}]
[JavaScript Error: "Error connecting to server.188BET靠谱吗Check your Internet connection." {file: "chrome://zotero/content/xpcom/sync.js" line: 652}]
188BET靠谱吗[JavaScript Error: "value is undefined" {file: "/Users/moritzklenk/Documents/ZOTERO/translators/BibLaTeX.js" line: 441}]

Also, I can no longer get the preference window.188BET靠谱吗Clicking on Zotero in the menu bar only lets me quit Zotero.I have no idea...

adamsmith

have you ever manually edited your translators?

moritzklenk

well yes and no: yes I did, but I updated all translators so they should have been replaced by the original, right?

moritzklenk

also: would it affect that I can no longer open the preference pane?

moritzklenk

I would love to try to reset the translators, but I cannot access the preferences...all troubleshooting recommendations therefore do not work.

adamsmith

188BET靠谱吗Find your Zotero data folder and move the "Translators" folder out of it to a different location (e.g.your desktop).188BET靠谱吗Restart Firefox/Zotero and try again.I don't think a broken translator should affect the ability to open the preferences, but hard to say.

If that doesn't help, try disabling all other add-ons, in particular better bibtex, for testing.

moritzklenk

Ok.我已经完成了。disabled all add-ons, tried to export it (now using BibLaTeX - because BetterBibLaTeX is no longer there), after it updated it's translators automatically, and I got this error again:
188BET靠谱吗[JavaScript Error: "value is undefined" {file: "/Users/moritzklenk/Documents/ZOTERO/translators/BibLaTeX.js" line: 441}]

btw.: before I did try to export I could access the preference window.After I only get "Quit" again...
Still no solution.

adamsmith

Is this one specific item or in general?The function it fails on tries to handle the filepath for an attachment.(It works for me, so this isn't a general problem).

adamsmith

oh, and an error report ID would be great, after triggering that issue.

moritzklenk

it is only for few items - but no new items, old and often exported ones..

Report ID of last error: 1580128906

adamsmith

Can you open the attached files?Can you give us the full filepaths of all attachments for which this is happening?

moritzklenk

(sorry, not strange.) and no: I cannot open it (it was a web address...)

adamsmith

Do you mean it's an attachment that's just a weblink, or is it actually an attached file, but instead of a filepath it has a web address.The latter shouldn't exist, the former would point towards a possible bug in how export is handled.

aurimas

If you click on the attachment that causes issues and you look in the right-hand pane.What are the first two lines that appear there?

emilianoeheyns

(If BBT still won't start on standalone that's a bug -- I used Services.vc.compare to compare the version, and it reports 4.0.27.SOURCE as lower than 4.0.27, which made BBT erroneously report incompatibility)

emilianoeheyns

(BBT has an active check for 4.0.27 and disables itself if that or a later version isn't found!I couldn't sensibly keep BBT compatible across the changes it introduced.Not complaining, just explaining)

moritzklenk

indeed this was one problem: the first line was empty, so no name.Filling something in here did solve this problem.To be precise: it solved the problem for exporting it with BibLaTeX.For BetterBibLaTeX there is another problem, now with this code:
188BET靠谱吗[JavaScript Error: "part is undefined" {file: "/Users/moritzklenk/Documents/ZOTERO/translators/Better BibLaTeX.js" line: 3735}]
Report ID: 954048799

I guess this is caused by the same attachments...renaming the first line is not enough for BBT.I'll go and find out.

moritzklenk

Ok.to delete these strange attached "files" which are no files but links did solve the problem.
Yet I still wonder, how did it happen?I've never had this problem before and as I mentioned I have used these items quite often.
Thanks for your help.

emilianoeheyns

Hi obsrvng_obsrvrs,

188BET靠谱吗I (author of Better BibTeX) am not part of the Zotero team!188BET靠谱吗as such, I don't read these forums as frequently as the Zotero team does, and I can't access the data that's behind the debug ID.I'd hugely appreciate it if you could file problems with Better BibTeX at 188BET靠谱吗https://github.com/ZotPlus/zotero-better-bibtex/issues.Better BibTeX also adds an option "Report ZotPlus Errors", which will yield a debug ID whose data I can access.If you right-click the reference that shows the problem and then choose "Report ZotPlus Error", the debug ID will also give me the reference data in question for easier reproduction of the error.

emilianoeheyns

188BET靠谱吗(oh and adamsmith is correct when he mentions disabling better bibtex before reporting zotero errors!188BET靠谱吗it wouldn't have been the first time BBT was the cause of what looked like a Zotero error.I have a growing test suite, but it doesn't have 100% coverage)

aurimas

So not having a title is a problem with recent changes.188BET靠谱吗The default Zotero behavior and UI should not make it possible to have no title for an attachment, but it's possible that Zotero plug-ins could enable this behavior.We'll obviously have to account for this.

aurimas

Should be fixed in the latest BibTeX/BibLaTeX translator.Update your translators via Preferences -> General -> Update Now and try again.

moritzklenk

Ok.I would like to try, but I still got the problem not being able to access preferences.188BET靠谱吗Sometimes there is only "Quit", nothing else (Standalone, Mac) when clicking on Zotero in the menu bar.

dstillman

188BET靠谱吗That's a Mozilla bug, but you can always access the preferences from the gear menu in the Zotero toolbar.

emilianoeheyns

BBT 0.14.1 now handles this case too.Must have been some strange beast -- given the way BBT works, it means it's an attachment that does have a path, but not a title.