Upgrade StorageCollection disappeared in Zotero 7
An old and sizeable collection of mine seems to have vanished. I'm using Zotero 7.0.15 on Windows 11.
Some notes:
1) The collection is not in the trash, it is not a subcollection of another collection, and it has not been renamed.
2) The entries and files in the collection seem to still exist.
3) I do have an older version of my library saved that has the collection's contents in it, but exporting and importing it both creates redundant entries and breaks the links to the files. I could reconstruct it that way, but it is a last resort.
4) I have also tried using the "Check Database Integrity" feature, but it seems to hang.
That exhausts the remedies I've found looking through old discussions. Any thoughts or advice? Thanks in advance.
Some notes:
1) The collection is not in the trash, it is not a subcollection of another collection, and it has not been renamed.
2) The entries and files in the collection seem to still exist.
3) I do have an older version of my library saved that has the collection's contents in it, but exporting and importing it both creates redundant entries and breaks the links to the files. I could reconstruct it that way, but it is a last resort.
4) I have also tried using the "Check Database Integrity" feature, but it seems to hang.
That exhausts the remedies I've found looking through old discussions. Any thoughts or advice? Thanks in advance.
But you can restore easily from the backup. See the specific step here about how to undo a collection deletion that's already been synced to the server:
https://www.zotero.org/support/zotero_data#restoring_from_the_last_automatic_backup