Upgrade Storagerestoring group data
I am using Zotero 2.0b7.6 and had set up a group for a research project several months ago. I recently encountered problems with Firefox so reinstalled it, thereby unintentionally deleting my libraries. I am not concerned about my personal library, which I have backed up as an Endnote file, but I have not been able to figure out how to get my group library data back into my Zotero account. I can see our group citations when I log in and click on our group on the Zotero website - how do I bring those citations, and the group library, back into my Zotero account?
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Exporting Zotero data is lossy, so "backing up" to an "Endnote file" (RIS?) is not very good.
As you had been using groups, you were presumably using the Zotero beta & syncing it. You should only need to reinstall the Zotero beta, put in your same user/pass & sync. This should retrieve the records in both your personal and group libraries.
I agree that exporting to Endnote as an RIS file is imperfect but having years of Endnote experience and only a couple months of Zotero experience, I am still more comfortable with the former. I expect that I'll soon be able to switch over fully.
Thank you very much!