Revert "Download files at sync time" to "as needed" : How to remove all locally stored files?

b0c5

I recently had to set "Download files at sync time" since I had to do some offline work.

Now I would like to revert the setting, to "Download as needed". So I would like to remove all my local downloaded attachments, and then just have Zotero download the ones I need when I try to open an item.

How can I do this gracefully, without triggering sync errors, etc. ?

adamsmith

You want to do this not in Zotero but in your file system (i.e. Mac Finder, Windows Explorer, etc.):
Search for PDFs in the zotero/storage folder and then delete all PDFs. If you also have snapshots synced, do the same for .HTML files. You *don't* want to delete all contents of the storage folder, though, since it also, e.g., contains the full-text search index files you'll almost certainly want to keep.

b0c5

Ok, thanks.

dstillman

(An upcoming version of Zotero will also offer the ability to have Zotero automatically purge files after a certain number of days to save local disk space, after verifying that they've been successfully uploaded.)

b0c5

That will be nice. Thanks!