help! restoring data after hard drive crash

johnallen
Does anyone know the best way to restore data to zotero after a hard drive crash. I had saved my zotero files, compressed on the apple i disc. I lost my entire hard drive, so I have had to re-install zotero. I have no files in it at present. How can I get my zotero.sqlite and zotero.sqlite.back back into zotero? Thanks for any suggestions!
  • dstillman
    http://www.zotero.org/support/zotero_data
  • johnallen
    Bizarre--in my profiles ther is no random string or zotero file
  • dstillman
    I'm not sure what you're referring to. There won't be a 'zotero' directory in your Firefox profile until you install Zotero (in which case an empty library will be created) or you copy in your backup files.
  • johnallen
    I think my zotero installation must have failed. I see zotero in my firefox window, but there is no zotero folder or zotero data in my firefox folder/files. Should I re-install. Thanks for your help, Dan.
  • dstillman
    Then you're not looking in the right place. The page I linked to above provides instructions for opening your Zotero data directory via Zotero and for copying backup files back in.

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