Library is gone after log in
Over the past weeks, I've been constantly filling up my library folder with literature.
Because the department I'm working in has been using Zotero for just a month, our PCs have not been synced yet regarding Zotero.
Since everyone has to be able to access my library folder from his PC, I used the account created for student assistants in order to set it up. Previously, I worked with Zotero without using an account.
So now, after logging in and clicking sync I can access folders of other people who have been working with that account, but my own folder is gone. Is there any way I can restore it and integrate it into the account? My plan is to log in on everyone's PC, so that they can all use the library or make changes.
Because the department I'm working in has been using Zotero for just a month, our PCs have not been synced yet regarding Zotero.
Since everyone has to be able to access my library folder from his PC, I used the account created for student assistants in order to set it up. Previously, I worked with Zotero without using an account.
So now, after logging in and clicking sync I can access folders of other people who have been working with that account, but my own folder is gone. Is there any way I can restore it and integrate it into the account? My plan is to log in on everyone's PC, so that they can all use the library or make changes.
So does this mean that every collection I build up without using an account gets automatically deleted when I log in?
The collection could not possibly appear in the student assistent account so no one except me could have access to it. That is precisely why I logged in, because I wanted everyone to have access to the collection.
I really hope I'm making sense here, bottom line is that no one deleted the collection (at least not on purpose) and I am trying to find a way to restore because it seems odd to me that a simple sync up command could delete it.
It's a bit hard to re-construct what happened here. What's the account you synced with, when did you first sync, and what was the name of the deleted collection?
If you go to your Zotero data directory, open 'storage', and sort by modification date, do you see folders from before February 12th?