Database size after 5.0 upgrade

dstillman
This discussion was created from comments split from: Now available: Zotero 5.0.
  • ftrxx
    Hi,
    I upgraded to Zotero 5.0.7 from 4 (standalone & FF) a couple of days ago and added links to the copy of 3 books. The sqlite file grew from 318 MB to 506 MB.
    I had understood that linking does not blow up the size of the sqlite file, that only adding the copy would do.
    Do I misunderstand something ?
    TIA,
    ftr
  • dstillman
    Zotero does index the full-text content of linked files, so if those files are very big, it might increase the database size due to full-text indexing, but there are various internal things in 5.0 that can also cause the database to be larger.
  • Noah Chen
    One question that I am not clear about is, if the PDF file is not OCRed, how can Zotero index the full-text?

    Thank you.
  • dstillman
    It can't.
  • Noah Chen
    Thank you for your reply.
  • ftrxx
    You can easily OCR a pdf file (if it is not secured) with the free PDF XChange Viewer.
  • ftrxx
    @dstillman : Thank you for the info.
    So, what is the advantage of linking instead of copying an attached file ?
  • Noah Chen
    edited August 8, 2017
    @ftrxx thank you for the info.
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