Old shared library, all new citations only on web
Hello - I had shared library with a research partner that I am no longer working with. I started a new library that is only mine, but apparently I have just been saving all my citations to the web since I made the switch, but when I try to open the desktop version on my computer it is the old, shared library. How do I get my web library to synch with my new Zotero desktop that only I have access to - I can seem to navigate to it at all as the one that is associated with my computer is still the old one. I am new to zotero and not tech savvy, so please explain any help with patience - thank you in advance!
If you're saying you had a Zotero account shared with someone else — as in, you used the same login and password — and now you want to switch the desktop app to a different account, you can just unlink your old account from the Sync pane of the Zotero settings and set up syncing with the new account.
There's almost nothing in the personal library of the account you're posting from, so I'm not sure what you're referring to.
The account Francinegb is the owner of the Dormilon group library, so if you want to see that data in your Zotero app locally, you just need to set up syncing with the Francinegb account, and that group will show up in the Zotero app.
If you want, you can then drag all collections and items from the Dormilon group library to the Francinegb personal library, but note that any copied items wouldn't be linked to citations in existing word processor documents, so if you're working on active projects with the word processor plugin you might want to just continue working out of the group library for now. You could still save new items to your personal library.
Can you be so kind as to let me know from the web interface how to set up synching the web library to my own desktop version of zotero? I have tried every tab, I am sure I am missing something.
And also I cant find a way to back up the web library - can you help with this?
Thank you again!
The online library is on our servers, so we back it up, not you. If you want a local copy, that’s the point of syncing.
Thanks so much for your time and thoughtful responses