Duplicates

ubauer · October 28, 2015

Hello,
is there any possibility for killing duplicates without accepting item by item? I have more than 1000 duplicates and want to choose every time the latest entry as master. So an option to choose a general rule how to handle duplicates would be great. Is there already such a possibility?

adamsmith · October 28, 2015

no. Are these the results of two separate imports? If so, you could maybe sort the duplicate folder by date and just delete the lower half (might take some playing around to get them selected, but I think should be possible).

ubauer · October 28, 2015

These are the results of many different users over several years....
Now we have around 33000 entries and about 1000 duplicates...

adamsmith · October 28, 2015

sorry, not automated way of doing that.

neaj · January 11, 2016

I was looking for the same functionality, so I took the liberty of adding a feature request to the tracker:
https://github.com/zotero/zotero/issues/898

adamsmith · January 11, 2016

(the issue tracker on github is for developer use, please keep feature requests here -- Zotero devs read every post).

Rintze · January 12, 2016

@Dan, maybe it would help to add a "CONTRIBUTING.md" file to the GitHub zotero repo, to steer users to the forums? See https://help.github.com/articles/setting-guidelines-for-repository-contributors/ for details.

dstillman · February 8, 2016

@Dan, maybe it would help to add a "CONTRIBUTING.md" file to the GitHub zotero repo, to steer users to the forums?

Done. Thanks.