not able to renew zotero storage because my "current storage exceeds plan quota"

cjolders

I just received notification that my zotero storage plan needs to be renewed. So I went to the page as directed, clicked "renew" but then got a message "current storage exceeds plan quota" and won't allow me to renew. At the moment I'm purchasing 6G storage, how do I renew without going to the "unlimited" storage?

adamsmith

I guess the answer depends on what you actually want/need. As the message says, you're actually currently using more than 6GB storage already, so Zotero won't let you buy just 6GB.

I think you can force Zotero to do this and then sync a random 6GB of your files, but is that actually what you want? -- given that Zotero doesn't let you pick which files are synced, that seems a bit useless.

It would seem like you'd either want to remove enough files to dip below 6GB or you'd want to buy unlimited storage, no?

cjolders

I'd like to remove enough files to dip below the 6 GB. Of late I've been downloading the pdfs and saving them to OneDrive folder, which is free. So I don't use file storage at Zotero any more, at least if I understand how it works.

adamsmith

If you don't want to use file sync anymore, then just disable it and stop paying for storage.

If you want to partly use Zotero storage, I think the easiest way would be to move more files from Zotero storage to OneDrive -- ZotFile would help you do that easily -- until you go below 6GB on sync