Syncing and WEB DAV

herasmonnersans
I am having trouble understanding what is it that I should type on the preference s pane when it comes down to the item related to the HTTPS:// ((BLANK))/zotero

It seems that there s trouble because there s an ERROR pane that keeps on popping up that says "the server can not be reached".
  • noksagt
    Try to reach your WebDAV server by putting the URL in your firefox addressbar. If you can't reach it, you may have the wrong URL.
  • herasmonnersans
    that s what i ve done, but i guess either i have no webdav server (could that be possible?) or else i cant guess what URL might that be. where should i get that info?
  • noksagt
    i guess either i have no webdav server (could that be possible?)
    Yes, it is possible to not have a WebDAV server: you must find your own provider outside of Zotero. What have you been trying to use?
  • herasmonnersans
    I guess I am more confused than I thought. is it indispensable to have the WebDAV server in order to sync zotero?
    On a related note: am I able to delete any account I ve generated to start anew and have the system (zotero) NOT recognize my prior attempts?
  • noksagt
    is it indispensable to have the WebDAV server in order to sync zotero?
    If you want to sync your file attachments (pdfs and snapshots), you'd need to obtain access to a WebDAV server. If you just want to sync your database, you do not need one. See:
    http://www.zotero.org/support/sync
    am I able to delete any account I ve generated to start anew and have the system (zotero) NOT recognize my prior attempts?
    I do not know what you mean by this. Do you have multiple zotero.org accounts? Multiple zotero data directories? Multiple accounts for some sort of third-party server that you had tried to use for syncing?
  • herasmonnersans
    I guess I am just not suited for Zotero since it seems I just dont get it!
    I tried to get synced (I understood I had to sync my hard drive to zotero) and could not get it right, to start with, so I generated 3 different accounts just because I kept on thinking there was a mistake w the account, not w my procedure. So now I have 3 accounts but just want to get rid of 2 and keep only one. That s on the accounts.
    Then I also dont get the reason why even tho i seemed to have set zotero (altho w no WbDav server) I could not get zotero to recognize that I was performing searches, nor did I get zotero to show me the icons (e g Book Icon) on the bar, so I could not tell zotero to link w the paths I was doing searches on. Something like this.
    Since I belong to an ONG and we never have enough resources, zotero sounded like a great idea to share data and texts amongst us, and create data bases on our projects we could call on. But I am not managing to get it straight so I just deleted zotero fr my applications and was going to start all over, downloading it again, etc.
  • surban
    "am I able to delete any account I ve generated to start anew and have the system (zotero) NOT recognize my prior attempts?"

    I'm interested in this, too. A while back I created an Zotero account and forgot about it until I forgot the password to my current Zotero.org account (each is attached to a different email address).

    The one I recently created has all of my info and the old one is empty--how can I delete the old one? I didn't see a "total delete" option under my Profile or in Settings.

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