Show/Remove Duplicates @ the Sub-collection Level

anchowyu
How do you do show duplicates in a sub-collection folder? The option only appears when I right click the parent folder
  • LiborA
    edited May 1, 2017
    I am not sure if I fully understand you. But, if you merge all duplicates showed in the "Duplicate Items" in the left pane, then you have no duplicates in any collection/subcollection. You can see one item in different collection/subcollection, but this is still one record in your Zotero database.
  • anchowyu
    Hmm I'm working under a Group Library. There is no 'Duplicate Items' in the left pane for my group library but I do see it for 'My Library'. If I right click on My Group Library named 'ESRM', I can select 'Show Duplicates'. However, this function is not present for any collections I have created under the group library.
  • LiborA
    Sorry, I am using version 5.0 beta and I see 'Duplicate Items' in group libraries too. But that is not important due to the princip is still the same. If you merge all duplicities in the 'root' collection of your group library, then you can not have any duplicity in subcollections.
  • adamsmith
    Sure, but if, for whatever reason, you just want to see duplicates in a given collection/subcollection, there is indeed no way to do so.

    Would be difficult to do, too--should that show just items that are in that collection twice, or any duplicate that has at least one copy in that collection?

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