Restoring the content of a note
Howdy there,
I'm looking for insights regarding an issue I have been struggling with for the past days: I accidentally deleted the content of a note (which happened to be quite lengthy) attached to a given entry. I don't exactly how it happened, but the result is that the note is now sitting empty.
The thing is, I think I have closed the note meanwhile, so that when I have tried to use the undo/redo trick afterwards, it did not work. I have also tried to get the content of the note back from my online Zotero library backup, but it had already been synchronised, i.e. deleted.
Next, I have tried for the past hour to fix the issue with Time Machine backup, restoring the zotero.sqlite file (and actually, the whole Zotero folder) from every single day since the entry was created in my library (October 5, 2017). This has not yielded any result, since the note attached to the entry stays the same -- empty.
Is there any other way I could find the content of that note? Any further tips?
I'm desperate not to read the chapters and write that note anew. (I have even started to doubt that I ever written that note, or the text within that specific note, but I can remember the time it took me…)
The note itself is: https://www.zotero.org/barnareader/items/itemKey/T6JZGE9D/q/sklair
Thanks a bunch,
Antoine
I'm looking for insights regarding an issue I have been struggling with for the past days: I accidentally deleted the content of a note (which happened to be quite lengthy) attached to a given entry. I don't exactly how it happened, but the result is that the note is now sitting empty.
The thing is, I think I have closed the note meanwhile, so that when I have tried to use the undo/redo trick afterwards, it did not work. I have also tried to get the content of the note back from my online Zotero library backup, but it had already been synchronised, i.e. deleted.
Next, I have tried for the past hour to fix the issue with Time Machine backup, restoring the zotero.sqlite file (and actually, the whole Zotero folder) from every single day since the entry was created in my library (October 5, 2017). This has not yielded any result, since the note attached to the entry stays the same -- empty.
Is there any other way I could find the content of that note? Any further tips?
I'm desperate not to read the chapters and write that note anew. (I have even started to doubt that I ever written that note, or the text within that specific note, but I can remember the time it took me…)
The note itself is: https://www.zotero.org/barnareader/items/itemKey/T6JZGE9D/q/sklair
Thanks a bunch,
Antoine
Yes, I did disable auto-sync while doing the backup, as was advised in the official documentation. Thanks for the suggestion, though.
Is there any log files that would track all the changes made to the note? So I can locate when it went empty.
Cheers
I'm not sure what you mean by "values through that date" -- in Zotero?
Sort by Date Added, and make sure you're actually looking at the database you think you're looking at, which can tell because the dates won't be later than the file you're restoring.