How to restore a folder deleted by mistake?
Hi guys,
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/74216/how-to-restore-a-deleted-folder-by-group-member/p1
https://www.zotero.org/support/zotero_data
I have try above methods["Restoring your Zotero library from a backup and overwriting synced changes" & "Restoring from the last automatic backup"], but I can only restore half of the data, how to restore the data completely? The data is so important for me, I need to restore it completely.
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/74216/how-to-restore-a-deleted-folder-by-group-member/p1
https://www.zotero.org/support/zotero_data
I have try above methods["Restoring your Zotero library from a backup and overwriting synced changes" & "Restoring from the last automatic backup"], but I can only restore half of the data, how to restore the data completely? The data is so important for me, I need to restore it completely.
If you do see the deleted collection in the restored backup but are missing other recently created data that exists online, you duplicate the collection, as explained in the restore steps, and then sync to pull down the more recent changes.
"If you're trying to restore deleted collections, you can create duplicate collections and drag items from the old collections to the new ones. When you sync, the old collections will be deleted but the new ones will remain."
The line you're quoting isn't relevant until after you've restored from the backup and can see the data you're looking for. If you don't see the data immediately after restoring, then the backup doesn't include the data, possibly because you created it since the backup was taken. If that data still exists online, it will be restored when you sync, but if it's in the data that you deleted, the only way to get it back would be to find a backup where it existed.
If you had a full backup that you were happy with and followed the official restore steps, which include using Restore to Online Library, that wouldn't be necessary, because you would just keep your data exactly as it was in the backup. But whether that makes sense to use depends on whether there were changes since the backup (and synced to the online library) that you want to keep.
Note that exporting and reimporting via BibTeX may end up duplicating items (depending on how exactly you do it), may lose data, and will break any citation links in existing documents.
After you've started exporting/importing items, merging, etc., your database is going to be a complete mess, and I'm afraid that's not something I can help with.
You can, at any point, restore to a backup with auto-sync temporarily disabled and perform a Restore to Online Library, as explained in the restore instructions.