Zotero groups
Have recently set up two zotero accounts on Firefox, one for my own use and the other for a group, and notice that individual and group accounts seem to operate quite differently. While in my own account I can easily conduct Google searches and drag items to my zotero account Library. The Library appears within a box below the Google search on my individual account, but not on our Group account. It is not clear to me how to Google and drag items to our zotero Groups library. Any help that you might provide with this would be much appreciated.
I also don't understand where you "drag items" from google into Zotero ever.
Also, I should not have said 'drag items', because when saving items from Google books I have been copying and sending to my personal library. This permits me to immediately view the pages of the preview that I wish to see when clicking on a citation in my library. If I do not do this then just the book comes up - not the pages that I want other group members to see.
Also, can I set up collections and tags for our Zotero Group library?
Thanks for your help Adam
But now that it exists: invite yourself to the group and make yourself and administrator. All of this has to happen on the Zotero webpage. Everything else below is _not_ on the webpage but in the Zotero software.
Then sync:
https://www.zotero.org/support/sync
The group will then appear at the bottom of your regular Zotero library in Firefox (not on the webpage, but in the actual Zotero tool that you open by clicking on the "Z" icon at the top right.) You can save items into the group directly by having it selected when you save items, and set up collections and tags and you can drag both individual items and collections between your library and the group.
See
https://www.zotero.org/support/groups
To have files, you would need to have restored the 'storage' directory as well. You can look in your Zotero data directory to see what you find. (It's also possible that your data ended up in another Firefox profile directory.)