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Hello,
My computer crashed and when I opened it my zotero library was completely deleted. I had backed it up on an external har drive so I re-uploaded the data, but it is all merged into the library now (my collections organizations is completely gone). Any help would be much appreciated!
My computer crashed and when I opened it my zotero library was completely deleted. I had backed it up on an external har drive so I re-uploaded the data, but it is all merged into the library now (my collections organizations is completely gone). Any help would be much appreciated!
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Do you have an actual backup of your Zotero data directory from before your computer crashed? If so, you can restore from that (after deleting your existing Zotero data directory to start fresh) and then replace the online library with that data.
Alternatively, what data do you have in your online library? If you were using syncing before, all you would need to do is sync to pull down your data, though you're at your file sync quota, so you won't have all your attached files.
Note that, if you did import an export, you likely have duplicates, and you should sort by Date Added and delete that entire span of items. And, again, you're likely missing attached files, since you were at your file sync quota and files wouldn't have all been synced from before the crash. So you're really better off restoring from a proper backup of your data (which is entirely compatible with syncing — anything previously synced will just be merged seamlessly with the old data).