Syncing with empty local library

dstillman
This discussion was created from comments split from: download synced copy of library from website.
  • pukster
    Hoping someone can advise:
    I have installed 5.0 and have an empty local library. Want to restore by syncing with the Zotero server. My library exists on zotero.org, but is the only version I have of it currently and I am slightly nervous.
    Can I create a back-up of online library before syncing?
  • bwiernik
    How did you come to have an empty local library? Just by installing a fresh copy of Zotero? Or did you delete everything in Zotero?

    If it’s just a fresh copy, simply syncing will work fine. In fact, that is exactly what sync is intended for. Zotero only deletes items that have been explicitly deleted in the client/online.
  • pukster
    Computer was re-imaged and I had (stupidly) not considered my zotero data at all. So yes it's a fresh copy and I'll go ahead and sync now. TY

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