*Solved. There was an error starting Zotero - New internal hard drive due to a recent crashing

WillamK

Hi, I'm receiving the following error message after having replaced the internal hard-drive in my macbook:

There was an error starting Zotero.

You can report this problem in the Zotero Forums.

Error: Could not open connection to /Users/williamkearney/Zotero/zotero.sqlite: 2153971714
openConnection/</<@resource://gre/modules/Sqlite.jsm:945:21
From previous event:
Zotero.DBConnection.prototype._getConnectionAsync@chrome://zotero/content/xpcom/db.js:1191:30
Error: Could not open connection to /Users/williamkearney/Zotero/zotero.sqlite: 2153971714
openConnection/</<@resource://gre/modules/Sqlite.jsm:945:21
From previous event:
Zotero.DBConnection.prototype._getConnectionAsync@chrome://zotero/content/xpcom/db.js:1191:30

Apologies if someone has already asked a similar question, the solutions I've come across in the forum just don't seem to be working for me but I wouldn't be surprised if I'm doing something wrong

WillamK

I had a few zotero.sqlite files in the Zotero directory for some reason. When I deleted all those I was able to open the desktop programme and repopulate it by synching

dstillman

zotero.sqlite and various automatic backup files are supposed to be there, but the main file may have been damaged. 2153971714 is a generic storage I/O error, so we can't really say much more than that.

If you've been using syncing, it's fine to just pull down data from the online library.