Moving entry to a subcollection and removing it from original collection?

franz47 · 2025-09-08T14:53:47+00:00

I was used to drag entries from a collection to its subcollection and thereafter deleting it from the original collection with the entries remaining in the subcollection.
Now I tried again and when "Removing item from collection" I get the message that this deletes the entry also from the subcollection. How can I only remove it from the parent collection, but not the subcollection?

dstillman · 2025-09-08T15:00:04+00:00

It only does that if you have View → Show Items from Subcollections on, because the alternative would be extremely confusing — you'd remove the item from that collection and it wouldn't disappear from the list.

franz47 · 2025-09-08T15:20:23+00:00

Thanks - worked!

tim820 · 2025-09-08T15:23:07+00:00

Also, when moving - not copying - items between collections, you should drag with the appropriate modifier key as a single operation ...
"To move items between collections, hold down Cmd (Mac) or Shift (Windows/Linux) when dragging items to the new collection. "
https://www.zotero.org/support/collections_and_tags#adding_items_to_collections