Items dissapearing in zotero

malszycki
edited 8 days ago
Hi. I noticed recently that papers in my zotero are disapearing. I though I'm going insane, but now I'm certain, because I shared the paper with someone 3 days ago and now it's not there in my library.
I checked online zotero and my trash bin is full of papers, which I certainly didn't put there, but the one I lost still not to be found. Ideas?

Edit: I have zotero on Linux (debian 13), and android and I sync them through zotero storage
  • malszycki
    edited 7 days ago
    I have zoplicate plugin, which I disabled now: maybe that was the reason (although it would be totaly not welcomed behaviour).
    I just realized that I don't have in my library item, which I cited in my thesis already.
    I will get back if few days with update
  • adamsmith
    Zoplicate certainly shouldn't cause this.

    In what word processor are you authoring -- Zotero devs should be able to tell you more based on an item that you cited recently that has since gotten deleted.
  • warguelles
    edited 7 days ago
    Are the items that are missing just the PDFs or do they also include the records in your Zotero library?

    I ask because a few weeks ago I happened to identify that I was missing 2 PDF files, just the PDFs, not the records in Zotero. After much struggling, I realized that even if I restore the files from my Backup, they immediately disappeared again.... It turned out that it was the antivirus used at my institution, which suddenly identified that they supposedly contained a virus, and move them to the quarantine folder... In short, a false positive!
  • malszycki
    edited 7 days ago
    Hi, thanks for comments.
    I'm using google docs for writing. My main browser is firefox.
    It's entire items missing, both pdf and the record.

    The item that I cited and subsequently lost since then I re-created. It was a simple review article. I'll now export my database every day to see if there's something disappearing again.
  • adamsmith
    Make a copy of the google doc, then (in the copy) click "Switch Word Processor" and "Continue" and then provide the field code for a disappeared item here. It'll looks something like:
    ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"Pi5I0OkF","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(“#OAweek: Dissertationen Mit Offenen Forschungsdaten | UB Blog,” n.d.)","plainCitation":"(“#OAweek: Dissertationen Mit Offenen Forschungsdaten | UB Blog,” n.d.)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":10751,"uris":["http://zotero.org/groups/487712/items/NQVRHZLC"],"itemData":{"id":10751,"type":"post-weblog","title":"#OAweek: Dissertationen mit offenen Forschungsdaten | UB Blog","title-short":"#OAweek","URL":"https://blogs.hu-berlin.de/wir_bewegen_buecher/2017/10/26/edissplus/","accessed":{"date-parts":[["2017",10,26]]}}}]}


    (the key part it the content of "uris" so http://zotero.org/groups/487712/items/NQVRHZLC in this example )
  • malszycki
    edited 7 days ago
    Hi again,

    Now I noticed that a whole bunch of papers lost their pdfs locally, but they are still available in the web library. Syncing doesn't download the files from the internet. I'm using 70% of the available storage space

    What should I do to force sync with online library? Maybe my issues come from some desync problem?

    Edit: I just re-installed local zotero and re-downloaded everything from web library.
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