Recover sources from word document

Lennart_kl

Hello everybody,
I'm writing my thesis at the moment and used Zotero for it. My MacBook crashed in-between and now I have a new one. All documents were in the cloud so I still have my thesis, but after reinstalling Zotero all the sources I used for my thesis were lost and because I didn't sign in to Zotero it seems like I can't recover them.
But my word document still has all the citations in it and when I "add/eddit citation" and search for a source it still finds all the sources I used.
So ist there any way to get all the sources back out of my thesis(word-document)? I don't want to search all sources again, its 200+ citations...

Thankfully for any tip!

adamsmith

https://rintze.zelle.me/ref-extractor/

dstillman

@Lennart_kl: But note that that will create new items in your Zotero library that aren't linked to the ones in your document in any way. There's not currently a way to recover items from a document and re-link those to the existing citations.

When you go to cite in this document, you'll see Cited Items at the top of the search results, which are currently just the orphaned items in the document. If you do this, you'd want to continue choosing those — rather than the ones listed under the library name — for the duration of this project.

Lennart_kl

@adamsmith @dstillman thank you guys so much for your help it really saved me so much time. I got all my cited items back!!