stored files

cbrylla

Hi,

I prefer to manually download and organise the actual sources for my citations, so I have two questions:

When I gather sources, I want to retain only the reference (metadata), not attach any files (PDFs, links, snapshots etc.). Am I right to assume that unticking "Automatically attach associated PDFs and other files when saving items" will prevent any file storage?

I have inadvertently gathered a high amount of files in the "storage" folder in the Zotero directories folder (which are actually duplicates of the files I had already gathered in my own repository, but not indexed them with Zotero). Can I delete the contents of this "storage" folder without the indexed data in Zotero being affected?

Many thanks.

adamsmith

On the first question, kind of -- you'll not get PDFs, but I do think you'll get some snapshots.

You can delete contents of the storage folder without affecting Zotero data, yes (edit: you should also disable file syncing, so the attachments don't sync back down from the server, should they be there.).

cbrylla

Ok, thank you.

bwiernik

You can also uncheck "Automatically take snapshots..." to disable snapshots.

cbrylla

Great. Thank you. I assume this will get rid of the links.