Followup from #4414 reported by @AEgit
I have the same problem.
No longer reproducible in master.
Thank you for reporting this issue. We think, that is already fixed in our development version and consequently the change will be included in the next release.
We would like to ask you to use a development build from https://builds.jabref.org/master and report back if it works for you. Please remember to make a backup of your library before trying-out this version.
I can confirm this bug has been fixed in:
JabRef 5.0-dev--snapshot--2019-03-28--master--a73167933
Windows 10 10.0 amd64
Java 1.8.0_201