Duplicate Accounts?

PKBaldwin
My hard drive for my MAC crashed and I had to reinstall everything. Somehow, after this, I began to have problems with my Z-account.

I am logged on here now and everything before the crash is in my libary. HOWEVER, now, when I add an article directly from the web link at the campus library or google scholar, when I pull up Z from the bottom of my screen, it's completely separate from my first account (which is still exists). I want both libraries in the same place and I want it to stop...

I know somehow it's pilot error, but I still need help...<3
  • adamsmith
    "when I pull up Z from the bottom of my screen, it's completely separate from my first account (which is still exists)."

    what do you mean by separate? Have you synced since your crash?
    Remember that the Library you see on this site is online, while the library displayed when you click on Zotero at the bottom of the screen is on your HD. Only by syncing do you make sure that they're actually the same.
  • PKBaldwin
    I did the sync and it's somewhat better in that now everything is on my MAC HD, but do I need to change something to get what's on my online library and my HD library to be the same?
  • PKBaldwin
    Oh and thank you so much for helping! At least I have everything in one place...
  • adamsmith
    if syncing put it on your HD that means it was already on the server so they should be the same now. (that's literally what syncing means: aligning what's on the HD and what's on the server).
  • PKBaldwin
    True, but isn't one location designated as the master and one the slave? (Sorry, that's probably old terminology but I don't know how else to put it...)

    Maybe...local...and remote? Is it a choice I made perhaps.

    ie. On my MAC and iPhone...my MAC overrides my iPhone entries...?
  • adamsmith
    edited September 18, 2011
    I don't know anything about iPhones, but I'd think that's not actually what happens with that either.

    Changes in one location are synced to all other locations (remember, you can sync several computers to the server and thus to each other.). If you change the same item in several locations and then sync you get a conflict message and can chose what to do (pick one or merge).

    In effect, if you're only using one computer and sync, the direction will usually be from your computer to the server - but as you've just witnessed, not necessarily.

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