Syncing and Cloud storage problems?
Hi All,
Is there still a problem, as listed in the manual, regarding automatically syncing the Zotero folder with the cloud in addition to its own data syncing?
"Storing the Zotero data directory directly in a cloud storage folder is extremely likely to corrupt your Zotero database and should not be done. (The same is true of most database-backed programs.) The forums contain many threads about the problems that users have faced with Dropbox- or Google Drive–based setups."
I am using the automatic back up and sync function of Google Drive (set up to point to my Documents folder - Mac M1 Big Sur) as well as a similar solution attached to the university. In Zotero, I have automatic data syncing on but not file syncing.
The posts I found regarding the problems are quite old so thought I would check here.
Is there still a problem, as listed in the manual, regarding automatically syncing the Zotero folder with the cloud in addition to its own data syncing?
"Storing the Zotero data directory directly in a cloud storage folder is extremely likely to corrupt your Zotero database and should not be done. (The same is true of most database-backed programs.) The forums contain many threads about the problems that users have faced with Dropbox- or Google Drive–based setups."
I am using the automatic back up and sync function of Google Drive (set up to point to my Documents folder - Mac M1 Big Sur) as well as a similar solution attached to the university. In Zotero, I have automatic data syncing on but not file syncing.
The posts I found regarding the problems are quite old so thought I would check here.
(You can generally assume that our documentation is correct.)
If I have understood correctly though, there is no problem in syncing the storage folder within Zotero as this doesn't contain the database, right?