Please Help: Zotero Sync Not Preserving Folder Structures after Mendeley Import
Hello,
I'm having problems with the Zotero sync after Mendeley import.
I had attempted a Mendeley import a month ago, but aborted this halfway through.
To do a fresh import yesterday, I purged Zotero Web data and deleted all the entries remaining in the Zotero Web Library manually, including the folder structures from my previous import (which I now see was probably the cause of the problem..?). I also unchecked the automatic Zotero sync on the desktop while the new Mendeley import was ongoing.
I've successfully imported Mendeley library to my Zotero desktop, but when I synced my data to Zotero web afterwards by pressing the sync button, the folder structure disappeared.
So right now my Web library is a large lump of unorganized entries, sorted only by tags. All folder were imported fine into the Zotero desktop during the Mendeley import, but the Zotero sync has somehow turned out to be a disaster.
Is there any way to revive the folder structures? Or should I redo Mendeley import again? I'm not sure if redoing the Mendeley import will return the folder structures, and I'm afraid of making duplicates.
(Error Report: 1502535020)
I'm having problems with the Zotero sync after Mendeley import.
I had attempted a Mendeley import a month ago, but aborted this halfway through.
To do a fresh import yesterday, I purged Zotero Web data and deleted all the entries remaining in the Zotero Web Library manually, including the folder structures from my previous import (which I now see was probably the cause of the problem..?). I also unchecked the automatic Zotero sync on the desktop while the new Mendeley import was ongoing.
I've successfully imported Mendeley library to my Zotero desktop, but when I synced my data to Zotero web afterwards by pressing the sync button, the folder structure disappeared.
So right now my Web library is a large lump of unorganized entries, sorted only by tags. All folder were imported fine into the Zotero desktop during the Mendeley import, but the Zotero sync has somehow turned out to be a disaster.
Is there any way to revive the folder structures? Or should I redo Mendeley import again? I'm not sure if redoing the Mendeley import will return the folder structures, and I'm afraid of making duplicates.
(Error Report: 1502535020)
Should I try to delete my Zotero data and redo the import? I'm not sure what will happen if I try the import at this stage without deleting the chaotic library.
Are you seeing that in your online library? If not, you should just close Zotero, delete zotero.sqlite, reopen Zotero, and sync to pull down your data from the online library.
For the files, you're just deleting the database. It has no effect on the files.
"An error occurred while trying to import the selected file. Please ensure that the file is valid and try again." (Error Report: 2060467152)
While I do have the folder structures back, there are duplicates of each folder. (Not duplicates of the entries, just the folders) Also, not all the entries have been sorted into their original folder locations, so that some folders are half- or entirely empty.
Don't worry about duplicates for now — if there are any once the import goes through successfully, we'll debug that separately.
Zotero.ItemTypes.getName(32)
'report'?
Yes, the output for that line is "report."
I recently retried the import, but it stopped with an error exactly as it did a month ago. There seems to be a particular file that's making trouble.
Can you look into this? I did another debug logging for the process: D356685900