Laptop died and no backup

dstillman · September 11, 2020

This discussion was created from comments split from: Retrieving library from a dead laptop.

m_zoi · September 11, 2020

Hello!
Help! my laptop died, i have not backup of my laptop only that i have is the hard drive. Can i have my zotero back in the new laptop? i have not online library only the local in the hard drive

dstillman · September 11, 2020

If you have the hard drive from the old computer and can browse it as an external disk, you can treat it like a backup. One way or another, you would need to copy your Zotero data directory from that hard drive to your current one. See Restoring Your Zotero Data From a Backup.

m_zoi · September 11, 2020

thank you!