Storage Scanner Causes All The Unpinned Keys To Be Refreshed

retorquere / zotero-storage-scanner

A Zotero plugin to remove the broken & duplicate attachment link of the bibliography

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Storage Scanner Causes All The Unpinned Keys To Be Refreshed #33

Open whitenoisedev opened 3 years ago

whitenoisedev commented 3 years ago

Change your citekey
Run Storage Scanner
Observe Items with unpinned citation keys change before your eyes

I am not sure this is bug, but I think a few words of warning should be added in the readme or popup.

Thanks for your work.

retorquere commented 3 years ago

This is going to be difficult to work around. I think the best I can do is a facility to disable key updates. Zotero registers a tag being added/removed as the item being changed, and only tells me after it has changed that it has changed, but not how. So I can't tell whether it was just a tag change.

retorquere commented 2 years ago

I'd have to do diffs before-after to detect what is or is not a relevant change to an item, because Zotero won't tell me, and I don't get notified of a "before". While technically not impossible to do, it's not really realistically feasible.