Yes, nothing after the colon. I have checked permissions, moved the zotero main folder to a different location, restarted the laptop multiple times; the only security software I have on this laptop is windows defender. I am hence not sure what's going on. Also, if zotero is not compatible with security softwares - at the very least windows defender, that is a big flag for usage.
It's not a question of compatibility. Zotero needs to be able to write to the files within its data directory. If something is preventing that, there's nothing we can do about it.
We'll fix the colon issue, but if you look at the error report, you can see the folders within 'storage' (e.g., D:\Users\[…]\Zotero\storage\ECMNXIUB\[…].pdf ) that this is happening for. You can check the permissions of those folders and files — and 'storage' and the data directory itself — to see if they're somehow set to disallow write access.
It is a local hard drive partition. I have tried giving full access to the folders of the Zotero directory to every available user and entity on the security tab, all together and then each individually - with no change in the sync error. I have no permission issues with any other program apart from zotero itself.
We'll look into why it's not showing a proper message. These are the underlying errors: And the message it's supposed to show says this: You're getting these for lots of different files, so there's a good chance it's security software.
We'll fix the colon issue, but if you look at the error report, you can see the folders within 'storage' (e.g., D:\Users\[…]\Zotero\storage\ECMNXIUB\[…].pdf ) that this is happening for. You can check the permissions of those folders and files — and 'storage' and the data directory itself — to see if they're somehow set to disallow write access.