Two people working on the same Zotero account?
I am an RA for a professor - if she shares her Zotero password with me, can I access her account from a different computer and make changes?
Would this compromise my own separate/personal Zotero account?
Would this compromise my own separate/personal Zotero account?
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Sharing a password seems like a bad idea for several reasons, including that it would be more work to switch between accounts, and then by default everything would be shared not just your overlapping research.
If you did that, you'd want to set up a separate profile for her library/account, and have Zotero open in one or the other profile while you were using it. (With a single profile, Zotero would have to delete the whole data directory and redownload the other account's data each time you switched between the two.)
@tanyamatthan, to clarify, one downside of using a group for this is that, if she's citing from her personal library in a word processor document, and she dragged those items to a group library, the group library items wouldn't be linked to those citations. We'll likely offer ways in the future to sync items back and forth between libraries, but right now you can only copy an item once in either direction, and to copy it again you have to delete the item in the target library, which means that it's not as good of a solution for letting someone make changes in your own personal library that you've already been working with.
I just had one more clarifying question: if she were to share her library, would only she have to set up a separate profile, or would I have to as well? What would the purpose of the separate profile be? I'm not sure I follow what that means exactly.