Is the way to save the new file by caching?

linmode

I hope to be able to ask this question to the relevant technicians. Have the newly added documents and operations been temporarily stored in the cache before being saved? After adding two subfolders to the documents, I performed a computer junk cleanup operation. After that, the newly added documents disappeared, and the names of the two subfolders that I had modified were also reverted back. Could this be because the software I used to clean the computer junk deleted the newly added documents in Zotero under the guise of being a cache?

adamsmith

Caching isn't used by Zotero's local app in any meaningful way, certainly not for data. What likely happened is that your clean-up app deleted all local Zotero data, Zotero upon restart created a new, empty, data folder and your synced data (i.e. old data) synced back down.

linmode

Thank you for your reply. However, I have not enabled the cloud synchronization feature of Zotero. All the files are stored locally. Although what I'm describing is more like an issue of cloud data not being synchronized, it means that all my operations for a certain period of time were completely lost. This is the first time I have encountered this situation. Among all the operations I can recall, the only one that might have gone wrong was the garbage cleaning operation I performed. So I would think about whether it is automatically cleared after being identified as cache by the cleaning application. I also found some similar situations among other users on the social platform, where the sub-files' documents were lost. However, unfortunately, they also don't know the reason.

dstillman

If you deleted the zotero.sqlite database by accident, Zotero would've automatically restored the most recent automatic backup.

There's really nothing else we can tell you here other than to make sure you don't let your disk-cleanup programs delete zotero.sqlite.