Upgrade StorageCannot move items or collections from My Library to Group Libraries
I am trying to move an item from "My Library" to a Group Library, in the Zotero Standalone client on Linux (Zotero version 6.0.10).
When I drag the item (or even a collection) to the group library, I get a "+" like icon as soon as I hover the dragged item over the name of the group library in the left plane. However, when I release the mouse button at this point, nothing happens: the dragged item is not moved to the target Group library.
This same drag and drop process works perfectly when I drag an item to a collection in the same library. The documentation at (https://www.zotero.org/support/groups) suggests that the same process should work across group libraries as well: "Items can be dragged into a group from My Library or another group and viewed or edited by other group members, if their permissions allow it." I have checked that I have write access to the group libraries I am trying to edit: I can create items in them using the Zotero connector, or the arxiv/DOI wizard, for example.
When I drag the item (or even a collection) to the group library, I get a "+" like icon as soon as I hover the dragged item over the name of the group library in the left plane. However, when I release the mouse button at this point, nothing happens: the dragged item is not moved to the target Group library.
This same drag and drop process works perfectly when I drag an item to a collection in the same library. The documentation at (https://www.zotero.org/support/groups) suggests that the same process should work across group libraries as well: "Items can be dragged into a group from My Library or another group and viewed or edited by other group members, if their permissions allow it." I have checked that I have write access to the group libraries I am trying to edit: I can create items in them using the Zotero connector, or the arxiv/DOI wizard, for example.
Originally, I was trying to move a large collection and that wasn't working. Then I tried exactly what you suggested (create a new item, and move it by dragging), and that also *did not* work.
Then, I restarted Zotero with debug output enabled. Now suddenly, copying individual items by dragging started working. I could even copy a few smaller collections by the same drag-and-drop method. To try my luck further, I tried copying the same large collection. Now, in the debug window, I could again see a lot of SQL like commands, but it ended with a message like the following:
(1)(+0000137): Rolled back DB transaction QGPGEsRZ
and the large collection was not copied to the group library.
So the current status is that I can copy individual items and some collections, but often on collections containing a large number of items and/or subcollections, the drag-and-drop starts copying, but then stops with a rollback like the above.
Can you restart Zotero and provide another Debug ID for triggering this again, to see if it happens at the exact same spot?
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/99020/warning-data-loss-when-exporting-collections
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/99015/copying-collections-from-mylibrary-to-a-group-library?new=1