Upgrade StorageFusion duplicated files
Hello. I have a sum of 10214 duplicated files and need to fusion them, but apparently I got to click thousands of times and have little time for that, let alone it is tedious. Is there any option to do it automatically?
Thank you very much.
Mireia.
Thank you very much.
Mireia.
This also discusses merging duplicate records in addition to describing the detection utility.
There have been attempts to use a plugin to automate the process. I don't know if any are currently available. I very strongly recommend instead that you set aside a couple of hours to do this with the built-in Zotero tool described in the link above. Once you have a few minutes of experience with the utility you will be able to move quite quickly.
Zotero will find "duplicates" that can have different levels of metadata complete-ness. One record can have complete metadata while the other can have something else in the volume, issue, and pagination fields. This something-else can differ by publisher so it is all but impossible for software to do a good job of automatically merging. A human brain needs to make decisions about what metadata should be stored and what is discarded.
Also, Zotero's duplicate detection is quite sensitive and can identify "duplicates" that are actually different publications with enough similarities to be flagged as (false) duplicates. These, of course, should not be merged. There currently is not a way to mark these as non-duplicates to exclude them from the duplicate list.
You really want to merge the true duplicates because if you cite different duplicate records you will have errors in the bibliography.