Stuck on export

[matthiasfabry]

Debug log ID

SQWH5QKE-euc/6.7.226-7

What happened?

much like #2954 and/or #2940 and/or #2942, I cannot export to bib files. This worked in Zotero 6 (although sometimes I had to enter the settings and manually "export now" instead of BBT automatically exporting after a change), but now it's stuck on "preparing Better BibTex +1"

[retorquere]

I don't see export activity in SQWH5QKE-euc/6.7.226-7. What were you trying to export?

[matthiasfabry]

I clicked on a collection and hit export. It opens a dialog with options, clicked on keep updated, gave the filename and save. Then it’s stuck on this message. Is this supposed to take more than 2 mins?

[retorquere]

Is this supposed to take more than 2 mins?

No. A build will drop here soon that has more logging, please send a new log from that.

much like #2954 and/or #2940 and/or #2942

it's not likely there is a relation.

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[matthiasfabry]

YQF9PDU9-euc/6.7.226.6920-7

It appears as if zotero as a whole is not hanging though. While the "preparing BBT" message shows, graying out the main zotero window, I can still access the "File, Edit, Tools, etc." menus.

[matthiasfabry]

Ok this is really strange. I tried exporting another collection, at it went without problems. Then tried exporting the problematic collection again, and now it exports as normal.

X224MX2B-euc/6.7.226.6920-7

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[retorquere]

please try with build 6932

[matthiasfabry]

W3SEIVRK-euc/6.7.227.6932-7

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[matthiasfabry]

HQKVE6NA-euc/6.7.227.6938-7

[retorquere]

So the translate starts and succeeds but there's still a recursion error. I'm looking into this but it may well take me a few days to come up with something.

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[retorquere]

Does this build fix the problem?

[matthiasfabry]

SBWG6MJ4-euc/6.7.229.6971-7

BBT now seems to correctly export (I see it in my files), but the dialog with "Exporting items..." does not disappear, needing a restart of Zotero to interact again with the UI.

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[matthiasfabry]

This looks to work as intended! Thank you so much Emiliano!

PC8JBD2G-euc/6.7.229.6989-7 for your reference.

[retorquere]

awesome. thanks for sticking this out with me.

[matthiasfabry]

Just out of curiosity, what turned out to be the problem?

[retorquere]

To be totally honest -- I think I know what triggered the problem, but I don't know what the actual problem was.

It looked like my database writes for the auto-exports triggered a recursive invocation of Zotero's dateparser; I have no idea why that happened, as I could find nothing about SQL writes through the Zotero API that did date parsing, so in the end I have just removed the trigger; I have taken the auto-exports out of the SQL database and have stuck them in preferences. I could not create a focused testcase (a so-called MWE) for the problem so a discussion about this on the dev list would not have gotten much traction.