Upgrade StorageHow to delete mere attachments from Zotero Storage
Hello fellow users of Zotero,
In the past few months, I have been using the BrowZine app to consult some online journals. Because I have it connected with Zotero, I can upload an interesting article directly to my Zotero Web Library.
Over time, I have uploaded a lot of interesting articles with BrowZine to my Web Library. Normally, BrowZine will upload the item/metadata of the article. When it can also download the article itself/the document, it will upload this document as an attachment to that metadata/article. Over time, my free Zotero Storage has become to almost full, and I would like to mere delete the attachments from my Zotero Storage.
Because I have already synced my Web Library with Zotero on my desktop, these attachments are already downloaded to the desktop client of Zotero 7 ('up-to-date' Zotero over flatpak for F41). I have also used my preferred search engine, to find answers to my question. However, those where asked and answered to even years ago. Thus I just wonder: does mere purging my Zotero Web Library does this job? As in, when I purge my Zotero Web Library, does it only deletes the attachments from my Zotero Storage, without deleting/purging the metadata/items too? Or is there another preferred way to delete the attachments alone from my Zotero Storage?
Although some parts of my question have already been asked and answered, I am still asking it, because those have been asked years ago. Thus I am asking if this is still the preferred way to delete the attachments alone from my Zotero Storage for the current Zotero.
Thanks in advanced,
86ul
In the past few months, I have been using the BrowZine app to consult some online journals. Because I have it connected with Zotero, I can upload an interesting article directly to my Zotero Web Library.
Over time, I have uploaded a lot of interesting articles with BrowZine to my Web Library. Normally, BrowZine will upload the item/metadata of the article. When it can also download the article itself/the document, it will upload this document as an attachment to that metadata/article. Over time, my free Zotero Storage has become to almost full, and I would like to mere delete the attachments from my Zotero Storage.
Because I have already synced my Web Library with Zotero on my desktop, these attachments are already downloaded to the desktop client of Zotero 7 ('up-to-date' Zotero over flatpak for F41). I have also used my preferred search engine, to find answers to my question. However, those where asked and answered to even years ago. Thus I just wonder: does mere purging my Zotero Web Library does this job? As in, when I purge my Zotero Web Library, does it only deletes the attachments from my Zotero Storage, without deleting/purging the metadata/items too? Or is there another preferred way to delete the attachments alone from my Zotero Storage?
Although some parts of my question have already been asked and answered, I am still asking it, because those have been asked years ago. Thus I am asking if this is still the preferred way to delete the attachments alone from my Zotero Storage for the current Zotero.
Thanks in advanced,
86ul
If I understand you correctly, you want to completely delete all the items that are just files, not attached to an item?
For that, you can sort by item type in the middle panel and then delete all the items classified as "attachment"