Recovering Deleted Items

mundo
Is it possible to recover items deleted from a library?
  • noksagt
    If you've only deleted items in the current firefox session, yes: Zotero maintains a backup of the database. Copy both 'zotero.sqlite.bak' and 'zotero.sqlite' to a safe place before closing firefox. Closing firefox will write over these. You can copy these newer versions just to be safe. Finally, copy the old zotero.sqlite.bak file over the new zotero.sqlite file and relaunch firefox.

    See also: http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/2476/
    for the feature request.
  • noksagt
    Dan's instructions might be clearer than mine:
    http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/1001/?Focus=3962#Comment_3962
  • mundo
    Is there a plan B? i.e., I closed firefox already.
  • noksagt
    Outside of restoring from some backup that you've made yourself?

    Not at this time.
  • Tjowens
    There is a ticket for some sort of trash can feature but it has not yet been implemented. https://www.zotero.org/trac/ticket/513

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