Does sync function also sync the index data?
I use Zotero on more than one computer. If I rebuild the index on first (primary) computer, sync it, and then go to a second computer and sync that, will the second computer get the newly rebuilt index?
When I rebuilt the index on my primary computer, the .sqlite file size increased considerably. I am guessing this is simply because I added over 1300 PDFs to the index in this rebuild. And this also tells me that the index is stored within the .sqlite.
However, when I sync the first and second computer, the .sqlite on the second computer does not increase in size. Do I need to change any settings?
Or, maybe I should just copy-paste the Zotero folder contents from first to second computer? The second computer may not have ALL the PDFs that exist on first computer. But I still want it to have the index (if that's even possible).
When I rebuilt the index on my primary computer, the .sqlite file size increased considerably. I am guessing this is simply because I added over 1300 PDFs to the index in this rebuild. And this also tells me that the index is stored within the .sqlite.
However, when I sync the first and second computer, the .sqlite on the second computer does not increase in size. Do I need to change any settings?
Or, maybe I should just copy-paste the Zotero folder contents from first to second computer? The second computer may not have ALL the PDFs that exist on first computer. But I still want it to have the index (if that's even possible).
Make sure full-text syncing is enabled in the prefs. Syncing happens gradually, and indexing happens in the background on idle, so you won't get the full index immediately.
You can of course just copy the entire data directory instead, but it's not necessary.
I was actually plesantly surprised how quickly it rebuilt my index. It cleared the entire index and started from scratch. And set very large totals character and page numbers so every word and page is indexed. Zotero took maybe 30 minutes to index about 1934 items, of which about 1700 or more are PDFs. It was left with 123 unindexed items which might be non-OCRed PDFs.
What files types, other than PDF, are indexed? Word, Powerpoint, Excel, html?
What might be causing the 2 partially indexed files it is showing?