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Originally Posted by DaltonST

You exported a link, not a physical book file. Zotero physically treats them differently. The DB lock is for the real book DB update, not a link/shortcut. Reduced functionality for links.


DaltonST

So does the comparison not work for linking even if you follow all the steps correctly and ZKey is present via ZMI import in Calibre?

Adding to the previous poster's question, I had actually followed additional steps after his step 3. I had indeed imported the book metadata through csv/ZMI into calibre. *The comparison did not work.


My steps are as follows.
Steps:

1. Use ZMI in calibre to export the RIS file
2. I fetch the metadata in Zotero and use the link to options
3. I export the metadata from Zotero to a csv file.
4. In Calibre -I launch ZMI
5. I import the csv file into Calibre via ZMI. *
6. ZMI Import Books & Metadata -> Add Zotero Books and Metadata -> Manual Mode -> Select Single CSV Export file [Manual Mode]
7. I select the CSV Row for Single Book for a book
8. I notice that ZMI does updates custom columns in Calibre including the ZKey
9. I exit ZMI
10. I go to Calibre -> ZMI -> ZMI Comparison
11. I get

Total Collection items in Zotero: 4
Total Collection items in Calibre: 0
Key: 4HNN39E7 type: book title: ABCD content: None path: None
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Key: AUWDQZG4 type: book title: EFGH content: None path: None
*
Key: UBCBQHID type: webpage title:KLMN content: None path: None
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Key: UKM6K5VJ type: book title: YetAnotherTitle content: None path: None
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Expected differences are equal to the actual differences listed above.