How to import a citation from an older Zotero library

Ggreenberg
Hi, all,

I'm having trouble importing a number of citations and their notes I created with an older version of Zotero. I've tried exporting from the older version library, but Export doesn't seem to work anymore, perhaps because I don't have the older version of Zotero anymore.

Ideas?

Gary Greenberg
  • adamsmith
    I'm not quite sure what you're trying to do - in what form do you have these old citations?
    What do you mean with "citations" - in a document or just Zotero items?

    If the latter, you could just install Zotero 1.0.10 in a separate Firefox profile, open the library and export as RDF.

    If we're talking citations in a document things will be a bit more complicated.
    If that doesn't answer your question you'll need to provide more details and specifics on what you're trying to do.
  • Ggreenberg
    As far as the citations, they are indeed Zotero items.

    I did try opening them with another machine running an older version of Zotero, but it seems these items are in a library that I already upgraded with more recent Zotero versions. I discovered this when I tried to export them as you suggested and got an error that flagged the version issue,

    Thanks for assist.

    Gary
  • Ggreenberg
    Dear, all,

    I tried again to export old items and re-import, as Adam suggested, and it finally worked. Thanks.

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