All data lost in a zotero group. Is there any way I can retrieve the data?

jalonso-regalado

I have just realized that all the data of a group that I own has been deleted. The data is not in the trash bin. Is there any way that the data can be retrieved from the Zotero server?

This is the URL for the group: https://www.zotero.org/groups/1318373/latin_american_u.s._latinx_and_iberian_studies__librarianship__bibliography

Thanks,
Jesus Alonso Regalado

adamsmith

Have you checked any of your back-ups? You should be able to restore from those.

dstillman

Including automatic backups made by Zotero: https://www.zotero.org/support/zotero_data#restoring_from_the_last_automatic_backup

dstillman

(None of your groups have had items deleted in the last 30 days, though, so recent backups likely wouldn't be helpful.)

jalonso-regalado

Thank you @Adamsmith and @Dstillman. Unfortunately, I did not have any backups for my zotero group. This is all I have (see picture below)
https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u15536/4648zukdh06f4luusxbo.png

It seems like if the data of this group was deleted was more than 30 days ago. Any options to restore the data beyond backups? Thank you.

adamsmith

Have you looked in zotero.sqlite.bak? It's not in there?

jalonso-regalado

How do I open the zotero.sqlite.bak?

AbeJellinek

Rename zotero.sqlite to something else, and rename either zotero.sqlite.bak (March 28) or zotero.sqlite.1.bak (March 15) to zotero.sqlite.

AbeJellinek

@jalonso-regalado: As https://www.zotero.org/support/zotero_data#restoring_from_the_last_automatic_backup says, though, make a new backup of all the zotero.sqlite.bak files first.

jalonso-regalado

Thank you so much @AbeJellinek. Problem solved. You made my day and years of work!