Recovering locally deleted data that hasn't been backed up

feifeiGao

Hello Zotero developers,

When I logged into my account, I was prompted to remove all local data. I checked the confirmation box, which cleared the local data of my original library. Is there any way to recover this data?

dstillman

When you switched sync accounts, Zotero warned you that it would delete all local data for the old account, required you to check a checkbox saying "Remove all data for “[old account]” from this computer", and said to make sure you either had uploaded any data to the old account before continuing or had a backup of your Zotero data directory. Assuming one of those is the case, you can restore by either switching back to the old account or restoring from the backup. If not, I'm afraid there'd be no way to recover the data.