I am having trouble with restoring my zotero folder. The context is that I am trying to sync two computers together using Zotmoov. Before I started the process, I made a copy of local zotero folder. I then went on with Zotmoov, switched to linked files, creating new subcollections, purged other collections etc. I have sync enabled, so as I was making these changes, it was being synced to my online account.

At some point I messed my collection enough that I need to restore it. So I deleted everything in my Zotero folder and replaced with the files I had from the the backup folder including the sqlite databases and the storage folder. When I started up Zotero, everything was great as if I never touched my collection.

However, when I 'sync' (either auto or manual), it syncs all the changes I made mentioned above. As a result, I lose all my PDFs (see attached pic, with the grayed out pdf icon). I know it's 'syncing' all the new changes because I can see my collections/subcollections change.

Is there a way to restore from the old folder and then force the online sync to what's local on my computer?

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