Duplicate references after setting up a group library

DrDebbieEllen
Hello
I recently set up a group library online, as I want to share references with others. I did this on a different machine, with a different zotero account. I deliberately only put up one collection in my library (having exported the references in order to import them on the second machine). I went to these lengths because I was not sure what would happen and didn't want to mess up my 'main' library.

What did happen, which bemuses me, is I now have many duplicate references in my main library (even ones I didn't put online). I have not syncd on the main machine. The date of the duplicates is the date I put the references in the group library.

Why did this happen and how can I stop it happening again?
  • adamsmith
    If you actually did this with a different Zotero account, there's just no way that the one thing can have anything to do with the other, so I'd be pretty confident that's a coincidence.

    Are you saying the main library is not even synced? Because then the only way you'd get duplicates there is with something that happened locally.
  • DrDebbieEllen
    One of the people I invited to join the group was my other zotero account - which has an association with the main machine, but that isn't set up to sync automatically either... It is when I opened up Zotero in the main machine that I noticed all the duplicate references. Its such a puzzle.

    I deliberately haven't set up auto sync on any machine because in my experience it slows everything down. Are there any other settings that could affect this sort of thing?
  • adamsmith
    I'm sorry, I have nothing on this. I just don't see how this would be possible to happen the way you describe and given that you have been creating lots of duplicates via export/import in general, by far the most likely explanation I have is that you created those, at some point, in your main library.

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