Portable Zotero.

Emesine · February 28, 2008

In reading the documentation I did not see one obvious way to make Zotero portable. I took the base folder for the reference database and such and copied them to my portable hardrive. Then I point Zotero to that directory instead of its default. Then I just install Zotero on several computers. So far this has worked well with one install of Zotero on my home intel iMac and another installed on my work PC.

noksagt · February 28, 2008

You could alternatively use portable firefox.

Your approach works too--just make sure that you use the same version of zotero on the different machines.

Emesine · February 29, 2008

I read the bit about portable Firefox. However, I was also trying to avoid having to install a Mac and a PC version of portable Firefox on my portable device. I thought that only lugging the database around made some sense and was not mentioned as a option in Zotero's FAQ.