Lost the option to not upload attached files

DaveMSW
Somewhere along in the upgrade process, the option to stop uploading attached files while retaining them in the desktop database was removed. Now I can only upload everything or delete them from my database. This effectively breaks the program for synching for free users.
  • adamsmith
    You can just disable file syncing in the sync tab of the preferences. None of this has changed, this has worked the same way since file syncing was introduced 5 or so years ago.
  • DaveMSW
    edited February 26, 2014
    Ok, maybe I'm doing something different. If the parent item IS the pdf, does the sync server sees it as a file and a parent item? During a process of importing and building the parent info entry, and transferring the file to the parent, I dropped a number of pdfs in the library subdirectory. I found the files had all been imported online and it overfilled the library online. In the settings, I found it set to synch files, which I didn't change. When I unchecked sync files, then deleted the files on online server, the files from the local database were also deleted. I did this before and didn't get this outcome. It is as if I confused the software, it changed the setting by itself?
  • adamsmith
    I can't tell you what you did, but all you would have needed to do is uncheck "sync files". There wouldn't have been a need to delete the files online (and if you _delete_ files, they will be deleted across machines—that's the whole point of sync, so that worked just as intended).
    I believe the file sync option is turned on by default, so if you re-installed Zotero or used in on a new computer that would have enabled it. It's also certainly possible that you never had enough files to get over the sync quota before, so you just didn't notice it. It may also be that if you use ZotFile to link to files it only moves attached files, not top-level PDFs (so that the latter would have stayed&synced with Zotero). What is highly unlikely is that Zotero would just change a prefence by itself.

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