Using Office 365 One Drive to save citations and attachments?

melbphd75

I've been going through the threads making reference to OneDrive but I'm not sure if I've been able to find an answer. Please feel free to redirect me to a previous thread if I missed something.

My workplace has eliminated network drives and our C:drives are no longer backed up. We have switched to O365 OneDrive. We have a number of researchers who used to save citations and attachments on the network drive as a backup and since we no longer have one, they get an error message. Our main concern is that short of purchasing extra Zotero storage for everyone in our organization (which I doubt would be approved), how can be use OneDrive to act as a "back up" or at least to sync attachments while the citations are saved on Zotero servers?

Thank you!

adamsmith

note that syncing Zotero data -- which is all you need for citations -- is free, so people should just be using that in any case.
Beyond that I guess I'm not sure what the question is.

melbphd75

Sorry that wasn't clear. There are two issues we are trying to resolve:

1) Is it possible to sync attachments to OneDrive while keeping just the citations on the Zotero server? Would that involve adding a link to the citation to the location of the attachment on OneDrive?

2) Since our individual computers are no longer backed up and if I remember correctly, it is not recommended to just rely on what is on the Zotero server as a back up, it is possible to use a cloud service, in this case OneDrive, to back up Zotero libraries? We use Zotero for Firefox.

I hope this makes more sense. Thanks!

adamsmith

Sorry for the delay:
1) Not out of the box, but you can move the attachment to OneDrive and then link to it from Zotero. The ZotFile add-on can automate that workflow, see www.zotfile.com
2) The best I can think of is to copy the zotero data folder to OneDrive on a regular basis. Don't place it in OneDrive -- that risks data corruption.