how to leave a group and remove their files

star.molteno

I am a member of 2 groups with colleagues, one of which I no longer need to access but it is taking up 60GB of local storage on my laptop. I have selected under 'preferences' to no longer sync with this group but would like to remove the files that are stored locally within it. How to I do this given that I also have another group that i am an active part of and i want to retain these files? thanks

dstillman

You can leave a group from the group details page linked from https://www.zotero.org/groups

(Unchecking a group that you belong to from the preferences doesn't currently remove locally stored data or files, though it will in the future.)

star.molteno

Thanks for your input but I still need an answer to this part of my question: How can i delete the stored data or files from this group once I've left WITHOUT losing the data and files of another Zotero group of which I am part?

adamsmith

Leaving one group doesn't affect anything about other groups

star.molteno

HI , sorry but you said earlier that when i leave the group it does not remove my files from my laptop. So to release the 66GB storage space that Zotero is using on my laptop how do I do this other than deleting the Zotero folders from my laptop ? surely this will then also remove any files i have in other groups.?

adamsmith

No, that's not what dstillman said. Unchecking the group in the sync preferences doesn't remove local files. Leaving it at the linked page does

star.molteno

ok thank you.. this wasn't clear from the earlier email so I appreciate you explaining again.

csosnowy

I would like to leave a group (I'm a member, not admin), but I don't see a button for "leave group" in https://www.zotero.org/groups

See screenshot. I want to leave "teamchan"

https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u189652/n1yxtn6p01x6y0b7852w.png

adamsmith

Click on the group name. Then the Leave button is on the right