Upgrade to 2.02

cjagadis
I upgraded automatically to 2.02 and I get the following errors when I try to read my stored files:

"The attached file could not be found

It may have been moved or deleted outside of zotero"

My directory has the following files/directory as follows:
zotero.moved-files.36.bak
zotero.sqlite
zotero.sqlite.1.bak
zotero.sqlite.bak
zotero.sqlite-journal

Orphaned-files
Storage
Styles
Translators

It looks like I have all the files in Storage directory.

What is the issue? And what can be done to fix this?

Thanks,
Jagadish
cjagadis@gmail.com
  • dstillman
    edited April 24, 2010
    Are you using multiple computers? Did you upgrade more than once? Are you using an external syncing tool such as Dropbox?
  • cjagadis
    I am using a single computer. The first time I tried to upgrade, Zotero hung on me. I had to update again.
  • dstillman
    It's quite unlikely that it actually hung. If you killed it in the middle of the upgrade and started it again, your attachments would indeed be orphaned. Restore the backup copy of your 1.0 data directory (assuming you followed the upgrade instructions) and upgrade again.
  • cjagadis
    It did hang for I did see in the Task Manager. I never backed up the old version.

    Is there no way to recover?

    Thanks for your help.
  • dstillman
    The Task Manager just knows if an app isn't responding within a given time period—that doesn't mean it's hung.

    If you didn't back up as the instructions advise then we can't really help you, but the only possible way would be to (back up the entire data directory and then) open the moved-files log in your Zotero data directory, manually rename each of the subdirectories of 'storage' back to its previous numeric id (or do it in a more advanced way, if you know how), and then swap in the sqlite.36.bak (which is the automatic pre-upgrade database backup) for the .sqlite file and upgrade again. I can't really elaborate on it more than that, since the instructions say to back up, but you can try that or get someone to help you.
  • dstillman
    Actually, that probably won't work. You may have killed it before it wrote the log the first time around (but after it had already started to move files), and any log that exists might have entries only from the second upgrade, and those files probably already work.
  • cjagadis
    Yes. My only hope is that I have the Storage Directory intact. And have to figure out a way to build sqlite file from this storage. I do apologize for asking repeated questions for I am not an expert user.

    If there is any way to re-index or build sqlite from Storage directory, it would be very helpful.

    Thanks in advance.
  • dstillman
    If there is any way to re-index or build sqlite from Storage directory, it would be very helpful.
    No. Zotero can't recreate data that no longer exists.

    You can use Retrieve Metadata for PDF, but that's about it.

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