Upgrade StoragePDF articles in the Data Directory are not appearing in Library
Let me preface all this with I am not using Zotero's Sync Service.
Based on an earlier failed attempt at building my library on a NAS I own, I manually moved the files onto my computer which appears to have caused a large amount of my PDF articles to disappear from the My Library search. I can 100% verify the PDF files are in the Data Directory and the Data Directory is seeing other items in the folder and/or adding new items to that folder.
I was racking my brains to cipher how to search for the Data Directory folder name when I stumbled across https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/120075/zotero-randomly-removes-pdfs-from-parent-item-but-keeps-it-in-storage-missing-annotations and searched for a few folders with the eight character name to verify they are in fact missing from My Library. They are.
I want to ask if there is a way to re-scan that folder and locate the missing PDF files from My Library that are in the Data Directory? I am betting there is but am I not seeing the idea when looking through the help or the menus for such a search. I have tried Rebuild Index, once when I moved the library and just recently upon learning the PDF files are in the Data Directory but just missing from My Library.
Worst case option I think is to simply write a script to pull out all the PDF files into a single folder and start from scratch to rebuild, but would like to try and avoid this if possible.
Based on an earlier failed attempt at building my library on a NAS I own, I manually moved the files onto my computer which appears to have caused a large amount of my PDF articles to disappear from the My Library search. I can 100% verify the PDF files are in the Data Directory and the Data Directory is seeing other items in the folder and/or adding new items to that folder.
I was racking my brains to cipher how to search for the Data Directory folder name when I stumbled across https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/120075/zotero-randomly-removes-pdfs-from-parent-item-but-keeps-it-in-storage-missing-annotations and searched for a few folders with the eight character name to verify they are in fact missing from My Library. They are.
I want to ask if there is a way to re-scan that folder and locate the missing PDF files from My Library that are in the Data Directory? I am betting there is but am I not seeing the idea when looking through the help or the menus for such a search. I have tried Rebuild Index, once when I moved the library and just recently upon learning the PDF files are in the Data Directory but just missing from My Library.
Worst case option I think is to simply write a script to pull out all the PDF files into a single folder and start from scratch to rebuild, but would like to try and avoid this if possible.
Can you just explain the exact problem you're facing within Zotero itself? The data directory is managed by Zotero, and none of it really works the way you're describing. Moving PDFs in the data directory wouldn't change what you see in your Zotero library — those are just attachment files.