Storage

yannicmarx · May 5, 2025

First i had the standart storage of 300MB. When the storage was full, i upgraded to the 2GB Subscription. Now, this one is also full. The only thing is, i don't store my PDFs in my Zotero, only Books an Web-links, so normaly this shouldn't happen.
Does anyone have an idea, why this is?

adamsmith · May 5, 2025

You can use a local storage analyzer tool on the storage folder in the ZOtero data directory and that'll show you what large attachments you have. Both web snapshots and books (epubs? pdfs?) can be quite large

dstillman · May 5, 2025

https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/storage_quota_and_local_storage

You have dozens of PDFs stored in your library, including a handful of PDFs over 100 MB. The largest five PDFs alone are taking up 1.4 GB.

You can use your OS search feature to look for PDFs within your Zotero data directory, sort the results by size, find the items in Zotero, and then delete the attachments and empty the trash.