Getting old data back after changing computer

suniba · July 10, 2019

I had a lot of data stored on my zotero on my old laptop, that laptop then totally broke and is unusable, i now have a new laptop and redownloaded Zotero. It seemed to say when i redownloaded it and signed in that i could sync my old data onto here so that i could still access it but then i couldn't work out how to actually do that. Is it possible for me to do that and if so how? Please help :)

dstillman · July 10, 2019

If you never synced on the old computer — which you didn't do, at least from the account you're posting from — your data wouldn't be online and you'd need to restore from a backup of the Zotero data directory from the old computer.

suniba · July 11, 2019

oh okay thank you!