Transferring Zotero to new PC

mlm198
Hi,

I had to re-install windows 7 (for another reason) and read all the documentation with regards to backing up and transferring zotero. What I was expecting to have to do is copy the 'profiles' folder in AppData>Local>Zotero>zotero>profiles and everything work where all my 500+ linked documents all appeared correctly in zotero.

The problem is that the folder structure and name are completely different in the new zotero I have installed as below:

- the folder in profiles is now called z0ea6muh.default opposed to yd5strau.default
- the folders in the new profiles is just cache, startCache and a file _CACHE_CLEAN_ the older folder also contained a folder zotero plus a lot of other files.

Please help as I am desperate to get it working and don't want to have to re-link all the files.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Best wishes

Matthew
  • Gracile
    edited June 10, 2013
    Be sure to locate **correctly** your Zotero data:
    "open the Zotero preferences under the Actions ('gear' icon) menu and click “Show data directory” in the Advanced tab."
    http://www.zotero.org/support/kb/transferring_a_library

    I think it should not be in "AppData>Local>Zotero>zotero>profiles" as you wrote
    but rather in C:\Users\User Name\AppData\Roaming\Zotero\Profiles\randomstring\zotero (that's what the documentation says)
    or C:\Users\User Name\AppData\Roaming\Zotero\Zotero\Profiles\randomstring (that's how it is for me).

    If you copy the **content** of your old yd5strau.default (yd5strau is a random string) folder into the new randomstring folder, it should work.

    Be sure to keep your backup.
  • mlm198
    Thanks for getting back to me so soon. It didn't work - I don't think i copied the correct file so I have just gone with syncing and then manually linking the files.

    Thanks for trying to help

    Matthew
  • Gracile
    manually linking the files.
    What do you mean ?
    Did you add your files as links, not copies ? Cf. http://www.zotero.org/support/attaching_files#file_copies_and_links ?
  • mlm198
    None of the files appear when I copied the info across but I was missing the zotero.sqlite file.

    By manually re-link my files. I was linking them via right click on each one and attaching a file as I have locate the files in a specific place on our server.

    Matthew

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