How do I keep only links to websites and remove snapshot data?

dsmurrell

Hi

My Zotero library has now grown to 5GB. I think this is because I always store a snapshot of the website I 'bookmark'. I either bookmark academic papers or websites. I would like to keep the PDFs that were downloaded with the papers, but other than that I would like to remove all snapshot data to reduce my library size. It's not clear how I can do this.

I've tried this approach but with no success (there weren't many snapshots found in the search): https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/47413/purge-snapshots/

If anyone can suggest an approach I would be very grateful.

Thank you
Daniel

adamsmith

What's the name of some of the Snapshots the way it's displayed in Zotero's center pane?

dsmurrell

I think they are the same name as the title.

adamsmith

if you use the search proposed by me initially, i.e. simply
Attachment File Type -- is -- Web Page
that should work nicely.

dsmurrell

Thanks, that looks like it's worked when I browse my library, but the size of my library remains the same. Would deleting these delete the files in my library as well?

adamsmith

have you emptied your Zotero trash?

dsmurrell

I emptied my computers trash. How do I empty the Zotero trash?

dsmurrell

Ok found it... it was at the bottom of my collections. Thank you... this helped!! 5.7 GB -> 1.3 GB