Problem Importing from another Zotero

malundy · May 18, 2008

I was using Zotero on my laptop and want to copy the library to another computer. I did the export to an rdf file. I opened the Zotero into which I want to import the library. I get the following message "No translator could be found for the given file" when I select the rdf file. Any suggestions?

malundy · May 18, 2008

Also, if I use Export from the gears I get the message "An error occurred when trying to export the selected file."

If I right click on a folder under collections and select export, it does with no error. But then I can't import it into my other Zoter0 because of the "no trqanslator" error described above.

noksagt · May 18, 2008

Have you actually inspected the file?

You may have to manually update the translators (if your export is broken).

malundy · May 19, 2008

I'm not sure what was happening when I tried before but I successfully imported a Zotero RDF file last night. I swear I did everything the same. I think the fundamental principle of "it will begin working the moment you post a question on the Internet" came into play.