Upgrade StorageSome changes in the settings menu on the web-site
Hello everybody,
I would like to suggest some changes that would make the use of the web-site, as I believe, easier. I will first describe my bad experience and then suggest some changes that would have prevented me from doing sad things to my library.
My bad experience
For a week I have been putting a lot of materials in my lib. Some of them were documents, both indexed and not, some were links from amazon. At some point I discovered that I run out of space. I decided to stop file synchonization. At first I could not find it in the settings, then when I find it, I uncklicked "sync full-text content", went on the web-site, went on https://www.zotero.org/USERNAME/items and deleted manually all the files. I thought that I was just deleting files, not the descriptions. I am a perfectionist, so, I do stupid things sometimes. So did I this time. I deleted all the files from the trash. In the next second I lost everything I had.
It was sad, but I decided to understand why it all happened.
I came to the conclusion, that I:
- Did not understand the difference between "sync full-text content" and "sync attachment files in My Library using" (And I still do not understand what "sync full-text content" mean.
- Assumed that deleting files from the Library on the web-site will just remove the attachments, but not the entries. Later I realised that I could do what I initially intended to do by "purging storage" here (https://www.zotero.org/settings/storage).
My suggestions
- Make the meanings of and differences between the "sync attachment files in My Library using" and the "sync full-text content" clearer.
- Unite https://www.zotero.org/USERNAME/items and https://www.zotero.org/settings/storage.
- Make clear that deleting entries of the library on the web-site manually will remove them from the browsed and the stand-alone programme, too.
- Make clear that "Purge storage" will delete neither entries, nor files on Firefox/stand-alone programme, but on the web-site only.
- Make clear the difference between purging storage and deleting entries manually.
I hope that my account will be useful for other people and will help the developers to make Zotero, which I like a lot, better.
Best,
auster
I would like to suggest some changes that would make the use of the web-site, as I believe, easier. I will first describe my bad experience and then suggest some changes that would have prevented me from doing sad things to my library.
My bad experience
For a week I have been putting a lot of materials in my lib. Some of them were documents, both indexed and not, some were links from amazon. At some point I discovered that I run out of space. I decided to stop file synchonization. At first I could not find it in the settings, then when I find it, I uncklicked "sync full-text content", went on the web-site, went on https://www.zotero.org/USERNAME/items and deleted manually all the files. I thought that I was just deleting files, not the descriptions. I am a perfectionist, so, I do stupid things sometimes. So did I this time. I deleted all the files from the trash. In the next second I lost everything I had.
It was sad, but I decided to understand why it all happened.
I came to the conclusion, that I:
- Did not understand the difference between "sync full-text content" and "sync attachment files in My Library using" (And I still do not understand what "sync full-text content" mean.
- Assumed that deleting files from the Library on the web-site will just remove the attachments, but not the entries. Later I realised that I could do what I initially intended to do by "purging storage" here (https://www.zotero.org/settings/storage).
My suggestions
- Make the meanings of and differences between the "sync attachment files in My Library using" and the "sync full-text content" clearer.
- Unite https://www.zotero.org/USERNAME/items and https://www.zotero.org/settings/storage.
- Make clear that deleting entries of the library on the web-site manually will remove them from the browsed and the stand-alone programme, too.
- Make clear that "Purge storage" will delete neither entries, nor files on Firefox/stand-alone programme, but on the web-site only.
- Make clear the difference between purging storage and deleting entries manually.
I hope that my account will be useful for other people and will help the developers to make Zotero, which I like a lot, better.
Best,
auster