I lost all my directories - All citations appear in alpha order with no directories
I put my flash drive into a new computer and when I opened Zotero zero citations came up. I then put the SQLite file into correct directory and all citations came up.
Problem: citations used to be in separate directories but now there are no directories and all citations are together in alphabetical order.
How can I regain my directories so citations will be in their corresponding directory?
Problem: citations used to be in separate directories but now there are no directories and all citations are together in alphabetical order.
How can I regain my directories so citations will be in their corresponding directory?
By "directories" do you mean Zotero collections? In the left-hand pane in Zotero?
If you actually copied your zotero.sqlite file from another computer, your database would be 100% the same. Make sure that "My Library" isn't just collapsed in the left-hand pane.
Also note that, if you were trying to transfer your library, including attachments, you should be moving the entire Zotero data directory, not just the zotero.sqlite file. But collections would absolutely be included in the .sqlite file.
This wouldn't have anything to do with "alphabetical order" in any case. Items appear in the middle pane in whatever order you're sorting them by.
The odd thing is that all the Zotero program was already installed on my laptop so the citations should have been unchanged and in their respective folders but for some reason there were no citations. It was an empty Zotero with no citations.
Now I'm wondering how to transfer an entire Zotero directory.
I suppose if someone would have told me that by hovering over My Library a little to the left a little arrow that points down would appear, and then by clicking on it all the, "collections" would re-appear.
It was a simple fix. Thank you.