# Problem with cite:xxxx links during upgrade to roam v2

**URL:** <https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/problem-with-cite-xxxx-links-during-upgrade-to-roam-v2/1875>\
**Category:** Troubleshooting\
**Created:** [August 2, 2021, 6:57am UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/problem-with-cite-xxxx-links-during-upgrade-to-roam-v2/1875 "2021-08-02T06:57:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![ctop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@ctop](https://org-roam.discourse.group/u/ctop)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2021, 6:57am UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/problem-with-cite-xxxx-links-during-upgrade-to-roam-v2/1875/1 "2021-08-02T06:57:26Z")

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I finally managed to get all the pieces together for my org-roam2 on Doom-Emacs, using the new +roam2 flag in the doom init.el  
Now I run the migration wizard and got a lot of messages like:

```auto
[...]/notes/reading/Wilber_2007_Up from Eden A Transpersonal View of Human Evolution.org:1	Invalid ref cite:KenWilber--2007, skipping...

```

This seems to choke on the org-ref cite links of the type cite:xxxx, which I used a lot to link between notes and bibliography. My questions are:  
What does it mean? (It seems the files get converted, but not touching the cite:xxxx link). Does the rest of the file get converted where possible?  
And secondly, what to do about it? Do I need to add some kind of configuration for roam2 to know about the cite links? My current config.el has this:

```auto
(after! org-ref
:config
(setq
        org-ref-completion-library 'org-ref-ivy-cite
        org-ref-get-pdf-filename-function 'org-ref-get-pdf-filename-helm-bibtex
        org-ref-default-bibliography zot_bib
        org-ref-bibliography-notes (concat org_notes "bibnotes.org")
        org-ref-note-title-format "* TODO %y - %t\n :PROPERTIES:\n :Custom_ID: %k\n :NOTER_DOCUMENT: %F\n :ROAM_KEY: cite:%k\n :AUTHOR: %9a\n :JOURNAL: %j\n :YEAR: %y\n :VOLUME: %v\n :PAGES: %p\n :DOI: %D\n :URL: %U\n :END:\n\n"
        org-ref-notes-directory org_notes
        org-ref-notes-function 'orb-edit-notes
))

```

Any help appreciated,  
Ctop

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**Author:** ![brab](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/org-roam.discourse.group/brab/32/531_2.png) [@brab](https://org-roam.discourse.group/u/brab)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2021, 9:34am UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/problem-with-cite-xxxx-links-during-upgrade-to-roam-v2/1875/2 "2021-08-02T09:34:04Z")

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I had the same issue, and I solved it by making sure `org-ref` is loaded as soon as `org-roam` is:

```lisp
  (after! org-roam
    (require 'org-ref))

```

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**Author:** ![ctop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@ctop](https://org-roam.discourse.group/u/ctop)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2021, 10:17am UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/problem-with-cite-xxxx-links-during-upgrade-to-roam-v2/1875/3 "2021-08-02T10:17:00Z")

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Ah, thank you, that is helpful. What did you do about the errors during the upgrade of existing notes? Did you run the wizard again?

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**Author:** ![brab](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/org-roam.discourse.group/brab/32/531_2.png) [@brab](https://org-roam.discourse.group/u/brab)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2021, 10:00am UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/problem-with-cite-xxxx-links-during-upgrade-to-roam-v2/1875/4 "2021-08-03T10:00:09Z")

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For me these errors happened after the migration, and they went away when I loaded org-ref.