Transferring/Duplicating libraries to a new account
I own an account with a private and several group libraries. I would like to transfer (the rights) of one of (one of) the group libraries (a rather large one 4GB) to my successor. Therefore I started a (this) new account, copied the whole database to the respective folder and now wonder if syncing would succeed, i.e. would restore all my libraries to the new account without interfering with the old/first account. Syncing produces a warning and I am afraid that data in my old account gets corrupted. I was thinking that after syncing all the data with my new account, I would delete all the libraries that are not meant for my successor and then transfer the rights?
Will this work?
Will this work?
Note, though, that any group that the new account isn't already a member of, will, I believe, disappear from that account during sync. In other words, group membership doesn't transfer with the database. It's a feature of the account.
a) Drag the contents of that group into your personal (or any other) library before leaving it
b) export the contents of that group as Zotero RDF.
Your original plan wouldn't actually work for your purpose, I believe, since it wouldn't actually preserve the group you're leaving in a format you can easily access in the future (you can't restore individual groups, let alone items, from a Zotero database).