hi dan

after typing that request I found the post , that I have to link to the datebase and I did that now with my firefox databank - and boom it was there.....
thx

One more question:
Can I link Zotero and Mendeley - by using chrome instead of firefox?

I have this same problem on my new macbook pro. There is nothing and no functionality in my Zotero stand alone. I can't find a Report ID.

what does "no functionality" mean exactly? You just don't find your items or you can't get any reaction from the program whatever you do?

Still not clear what you mean. Are you saying you can't add an item from the New Item (green circle with white plus sign) menu?

If you can, it's probably just not looking in the right place for your existing data. By default whichever Zotero client you install second should ask if you want it to share your existing data directory. You may have just said no by accident. Set Standalone to point to your Zotero for Firefox data directory in the Advanced -> Files and Folders pane of the Zotero prefs. See Zotero data for more info.

It actually looks like your client performed a full sync, so you might want to check that they're actually pointing to the same place. If they're set up correctly, you won't be able to open them both at the same time — Zotero for Firefox would instead switch into a lightweight "connector" mode and opening Zotero in Firefox would just bring Standalone to the front. If you can open them both at the same time, you should fix one or the other to point at the other's data directory (probably with the Standalone directory as the canonical one).

Hi there, I have a similar problem, not sure whether to post it here or a new post. I'll start here and let me know if I should delete my post and start a new one.

I have just had a new HDD installed, by a shop, and had maverick installed at the same time (Upgraded from snow leopard I think, but not sure). They archived my settings, files and programs are transferred everything over (I'm not 100% sure of the methods used but that's what they said and everything else seems to be working the same, just on maverick).

Imagine my surprise when my zotero library was empty! ;)

Using Zotero standalone 4.0.17, the 'show data directory' button does not do anything at all (I presume because the directory no longer exists), but I'm unable to find the equivalent. I searched for the zotero.sqlite file and nothing came up.

My data directory is (I can't cut and paste it so....)

users/damian/library/application support/firefox/profiles/randomstring.default/zotero

Since upgrading my user directory has been changed from damian to damiennew

I went back to the root directory, and followed users/damiennew/library etc but there is no library directory after damiennew, damiennew seems to only have user files, ie. docs, etc

The library directory comes immediately after SSHD (root directory), but then after application support there is no firefox directory.

I do have firefox installed however, and looking at it my citation info is still in it (I couldn't tell how up to date it is) but it has 'profile' rather than 'custom' ticked for directory. It also has the wrong password for syncing with zotero online, but I'll presume that's a separate problem for now. I don't generally use firefox anymore.

Finally, I have my old HDD still, so perhaps the answer is to mount it and just copy the directory over? Any advice on whether using profile instead of custom is a good idea?

Many thanks Zotero community!

Hi Adam,

You're always coming to my rescue. Thanks, the first option worked. I had trouble, my library folder was hidden, although there was another library folder that wasn't hidden, which confused me. I was concerned the last few weeks work may not have been there but I'm pretty sure it's up to date, it's the same directory after all so it must be.

Many many thanks once again.