Data Disappeared!
i am using Zotero on a desktop which is managed by my university department, they had a massive server failure which resulted in the link between where my Zotero data is stored (a custom directory on my desktop) and firefox being severed. I have tried what you said about redirecting where zotero is looking and it is not making my files reappear. I have also tried transferring onto another machine and using it on there with the method you recommend and its still not working. I just submitted an error (may have done this twice so my apologies!) with the error ID 2139178530. Could this be to do with why i cant see my files?
Thanks
Thanks
I have just tried to put it on the other machine again and have just got the error ID 1527439058 if that helps at all?
How large -roughly - was the size of your database (how many items)? How large (how many bytes) is the zotero.sqlite file you're pointing Zotero to?
in the database there were approx 6000 references, 2/3rd of these have PDF or web links - The size of these are approx 6GB. The size of sqlite file is 936KB. But I also have a zotero.sqlite.bak file (936KB) and zotero.sqlite-journal (89KB)
Would restoring that file back to a previous version perhaps work (as this is what my IT dept advised)?
Is there nothing I can do with all the data which is obviously in the storage folder?
Again, is there nothing I can do with storage folder because all the files are still in there?
Your IT department's suggestion to retrieve an older version of the file is the way to go.