Changing database ID does not work

[dkamaitis]

Describe the issue Changing Database ID to a new one does not work. Notero still tries to sync using the old Notion Database ID.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Create/copy Notion database.
2. Paste new Database ID into Notero preferences.
3. Sync any enabled collection.
4. See changes in the old Notion database.

Expected behavior Changes synced to a new Notion database.

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[dvanoni]

Hi @dkamaitis, thanks for reporting this issue!

I see what's happening here. When a Zotero item has been synced to Notion, a link to the Notion page is saved in Zotero so that any future updates to the item will update the same page in Notion instead of creating a new page. Unfortunately, there's currently no logic to check that the page is still in the database specified by the database ID in the Notero preferences.

I'd like to implement a proper fix for this, but in the meantime, here are some workarounds I can think of:

• Delete the "Notion" links attached to synced Zotero items and then sync again.
• Delete the pages in the old Notion database and then sync again. You have to permanently delete the pages in order for this to work—i.e. you have to delete the pages from the Trash.
  • I think the easiest way to do this is to bulk delete the pages from a table view of your database, and then navigate to the "In current page" view of the Trash to find the pages to permanently delete.
  • See this Notion documentation for more details.

[dkamaitis]

Hi @dvanoni, thanks for the detailed explanation - very much appreciate your work on Notero.