Move attachments from Zotero storage to WebDAV

Mojo Dodo · October 23, 2016

After my library attachments reached 300 MB, I changed the storage to WebDAV. Freshly attached pdf files are now saved on my WebDAV storage, but the previously attached ones are still saved on Zotero's servers.
How can I move those old attachments to my WebDAV storage?

dstillman · October 23, 2016

It should've done this automatically, but you can do a Reset File Sync History from the Sync -> Reset pane of the Zotero prefs. Don't use the other reset options.

Mojo Dodo · November 21, 2016

Reset File Sync History from the Sync

Unfortunately, this did not delete the files that were originally stored to the Zotero web storage. It's still on 300 MB used storage

adamsmith · November 21, 2016

Well, but are they on your webDAV? That'd be the more important question. Once that has worked, you can remove them from the Zotero server using the "Purge Storage" button here: https://www.zotero.org/settings/storage

Mojo Dodo · November 23, 2016

Ok, yes they are. At first I thought they weren't, but in fact I just didn't find them on my webDAV storage. I was searching for the file names of the pdfs, but Zotero stores those pdf files in zip-archives which made them untraceable via the search function. They can be found by the name of the folder they are located in.

So, "purge storage" worked. Thank you!