Changed account and deleted local library

klu8
unfortunately I changed the account of my Zotero from A to B. The local library of account A wasn’t synced with the online one anymore. When changing to account B I got asked something along the lines of „would you like to overwrite your library of account A?“ I clicked yea without realizing that the library wasn’t synced anymore. So now my local zotero of account A is gone. And all the automatic backups of zotero (account a) are gone too. Is there a way to recover the local account A?
Thanks for your help!!
  • dstillman
    edited November 13, 2023
    When you try to sync with a different account, there's a warning with a "Remove all data for “[account]” from this computer" checkbox, and it tells you to either make sure you've backed up the local data directory or fully synced with the online library. If you did either, the data would exist in a backup or after switching back to the old account. If you did neither, it's not something we ever had on our servers, so I'm afraid your only option would be to restore from some backup you made of your Zotero data directory.
  • k-lutz
    Ah I see, thanks for the fast reply!
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