Upgrade StorageDisappearing Files/Syncing a back up
Today the vast majority of my files disappeared. At first I thought it was the common problem described (http://www.zotero.org/support/zotero_data) but now I'm not sure. All of my folders remained intact as did everything in my trash bin. Everything else seems to have gotten a clean wipe. Unfortunately I had closed firefox before I realized the problem so saving a copy of the file wasn't an option. I'm still not sure what caused the problem. I checked the firefox profile but only one appeared so I can't see how it would have made any kind of mix up there. All my bookmarks are also fine. I also tried using the "show data" feature and the correct folder showed up. I'm at a loss as to what the problem would be. Hopefully I've just overlooked something simple.
As irritating as that was I had a back up from a few days ago. I followed the instructions for recovering data and successfully loaded it. As soon as it synced, however, my recovered files were replaced with the corrupted version of the file (all files missing except folder and trash). Is there any way to tell zotero to use this older data (my back up) instead of the newer but broken data it seems to prefer? I'd like to be able to use the sync feature in the future but as of right now the only way to make anything work is to turn it off completely.
As irritating as that was I had a back up from a few days ago. I followed the instructions for recovering data and successfully loaded it. As soon as it synced, however, my recovered files were replaced with the corrupted version of the file (all files missing except folder and trash). Is there any way to tell zotero to use this older data (my back up) instead of the newer but broken data it seems to prefer? I'd like to be able to use the sync feature in the future but as of right now the only way to make anything work is to turn it off completely.
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I did change the data directory location of zotero when I first installed it. I thought at first that might be a problem but I've gone into preferences and had look at both locations. No luck there sadly.
I also thought I might have accidently turned off grease monkey mid sync as it is located next to the zotero icon. I turned that on and off multiple times during the sync without any loss of data.