Data Directory Location Mismatch

amdijefri
Hello,

When I began using Zotero Standalone seriously I moved the Data Directory location from the default location in the browser profile to my Documents folder. Recently I happened to be in the in-browser Zotero preferences and noticed that it reports my data directory location as the default. I went back to the Zotero standalone app and verified that it is still using the custom location.

How can I verify that the work that I did in the in-browser Zotero is not stored in the wrong directory and how can I force the in-browser Zotero back to the custom directory without running the risk of damaging or deleting what is already there?

Thank you for your time.

David
  • amdijefri
    I checked Firefox's about:config and "extensions.zotero.dataDir"'s status is "default" and string is blank.
  • adamsmith
    I'm not quite clear whether things are working correctly and you're just concerned about the settings that you see?
    Zotero will prompt you and, by default, set the data directory of a newly installed version to that of an already installed version. IIRC the data directory setting in the advanced panel with just say default in that case. So unless you're having specific problems you can just ignore this.

    If Zotero for Firefox and Zotero Standalone are indeed saving to different databases, you can pick one and manually direct it to the database of the other without risking any damage.
  • amdijefri
    I believe both are working correctly as I can see all of my collections in the in-browser Zotero, even though the in-browser Zotero preferences (and extensions.zotero.dataDir) report a default location. So, yes, I am mostly concerned about the settings I see.
  • aurimas
    What is likely happening is that Standalone and Zotero for Firefox are using different data directories, but they are getting synchronized through zotero.org

    You can try disabling sync and then adding an item to one of them and see if it appears in the other.

    The only downside to this (that I can think of) is that you are using twice as much space on your computer and you are unnecessarily downloading your items from the sync server.

    If this is in fact the case, and you want to fix it, you can do what adamsmith advises
    If Zotero for Firefox and Zotero Standalone are indeed saving to different databases, you can pick one and manually direct it to the database of the other without risking any damage.
  • Bart_De_Roy
    hello,
    Could someone please help me get this right?

    set HOME=%CD%\Data\settings
    start FirefoxPortable.exe

    This is a .bat file starting up portable Firefox, in order to locate the vimperator rc file. Every time I start up the browser I would like to set the extensions.zotero.dataDir to the path containing the right drive letter too. How do I do that? in the rc file as I proposed here? Can't seem to get any responses there.
    https://code.google.com/p/vimperator-labs/issues/detail?id=211

    :js liberator.execute('set! extensions.zotero.dataDir='io.getCurrentDirectory().path.replace(/[\\]/g,'\\\\') + '\\\\zotero');
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