are storage breakdowns available?
I am new to zotero, and liking it very much. I like to have my papers in Dropbox, and so I am inserting them into zotero as link-style attachments. But the storage that I have used doesn't seem to be consistent with that; it seems that the storage may be the actual file size, not a link size. Is there a way for me to see a breakdown of my zotero storage, so that I can check on my hypothesis?
PS. I don't mind buying a zotero subscription, but I have loads of Dropbox space available, and I like using it because of the ability to retrieve accidentally-deleted files, etc.
PS. I don't mind buying a zotero subscription, but I have loads of Dropbox space available, and I like using it because of the ability to retrieve accidentally-deleted files, etc.
As for your question, Zotero doesn't have a storage breakdown, but you can simply run a disk space analyzer on the "storage" subdirectory of the Zotero data folder: https://www.zotero.org/support/zotero_data
FIRST, I used
du storage | sort -nk 1
to find some big PDF files. (This could be done in a gui, of course.)
SECOND, for each large storage/HASHCODE subdirectory, I took the following steps.
1. In the OS, copy the large PDF from storage/HASHCODE to a dropbox location.
2. In zotero, delete the PDF (and web snapshot) to the trash.
3. In zotero, empty the trash.
3. In zotero, add the PDF back as an attachment to the bib reference, but this time as a *link*, not as a copied file.
The other thing to note is that I did the following, to prevent this bloat in the future:
4. In zotero, select "preferences" and then select "sync". Then uncheck the boxes beside the following items:
* Sync automatically
* Sync full-text content
* Sync attachment files in My Library using [Zotero]
* Sync attachment files in group libraries using Zotero storage
5. In zotero, select "preferences" and then select "general", and uncheck the box at the item labelled
* Automatically take snapshots when creating items from web pages