Help! New message about empty Zotero database?
I just opened Zotero and received the following message:
You are about to sync your account to an empty Zotero database. This could happen if you removed your previous database or if the location of your Zotero data directory changed. If your Zotero data exists elsewhere on this computer, you should move it to the current data directory or change the data directory location to point to your existing data.
I haven't changed the data location, and it's still showing up on my computer under the same address/folder location?
You are about to sync your account to an empty Zotero database. This could happen if you removed your previous database or if the location of your Zotero data directory changed. If your Zotero data exists elsewhere on this computer, you should move it to the current data directory or change the data directory location to point to your existing data.
I haven't changed the data location, and it's still showing up on my computer under the same address/folder location?
See Locating Missing Zotero Data for possibilities and see the requested information there.
Again, nothing says to open the .sqlite files. Don't try to do so.
Most likely you just didn't copy the zotero.sqlite file correctly from your backup from before your hard drive was wiped. You need to copy the entire Zotero data directory from the backup. It should contain a zotero.sqlite file that's larger than 5 MB.
If you only have the 'storage' folder from your backup and no zotero.sqlite, you won't have any data locally and would need to sync to pull down your data from your online library.