Moving Collections from Local Read-Only Group to another Group

sdflewrit783
I would like to move the references AND their collections from the local read-only group (a remnant of the group that was deleted online) to another existing group. However, I can move the references but not the collections. Dragging the collections in the desktop version does not seem to be doing anything. Is it possible? Am I missing something?
  • dstillman
    Have you dragged the collection to the group previously?
  • sdflewrit783
    Not sure what you mean. It does work fine with my other groups.
  • dstillman
    If you've previously dragged that collection to that group, you'll need to delete the existing collection in the group and drag again. It won't let you drag a collection you've already dragged (but it will automatically add the items already dragged to that library back to the new collection).

    (We know this is awkward, and it will be improved in a future version.)
  • sdflewrit783
    edited May 20, 2020
    No, I have not dragged anything anywhere from this group previously. I was trying to move items from a read-only group to an empty group. I have just manually recreated the collection and the group is now deleted. So, I cannot do furtehr testing but you can try to make a new group, sync, delete online, choose to retain the local read-only copy and then attempt to move collections from it to another group. It did not work.
  • dstillman
    OK, I can reproduce that — it actually fails to copy a collection from any read-only library. We'll fix this. Thanks for reporting.
  • dstillman
    This is fixed in the latest Zotero beta, and the fix will be included in Zotero 5.0.88.
  • sdflewrit783
    Thanks.

This is an old discussion that has not been active in a long time. Before commenting here, you should strongly consider starting a new discussion instead. If you think the content of this discussion is still relevant, you can link to it from your new discussion.

Sign In or Register to comment.