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• Thank you so much! This clarifies things wonderfully; I appreciate your help. Dan

  in Removing PDFs to free up space Comment by danbashara July 9, 2016
• Ahh, I see--so if I turn off file syncing, my online Zotero account will stay at full storage capacity, but that won't affect all the other bibliographic information (notes, citations, etc), which will continue to work just fine. Is that right?

  in Removing PDFs to free up space Comment by danbashara July 9, 2016
• Thank you! I need to remove them because standalone Zotero won't sync; I get an error message that I've run out of storage space, which I'm assuming is due to the PDFs as metadata is unlimited, right? Am I fundamentally misunderstanding something ab…

  in Removing PDFs to free up space Comment by danbashara July 9, 2016
• Hi! I've read through all of this (and many other sources), and it's very helpful, but I want to echo pmusinguzi's question above, because I'm still a bit confused: Is there anything I can do if my storage is already full? I've unchecked file syncin…

  in Removing PDFs to free up space Comment by danbashara July 9, 2016
• Hi everyone, Never mind, I figured something out and got it back. I'd just delete my last post but I don't know how. So disregard me please! Dan

  in Entire library disappeared Comment by danbashara June 15, 2013
• I've decided to keep the entire Zotero folder on my computer, in the "Documents" folder, rather than having it link directly to Google Drive; this way I can just manually copy the Zotero folder to my Google Drive folder whenever I make changes. I th…

  in What is this "Pipes" folder in my Zotero folder? Comment by danbashara June 6, 2013
• Actually, forget those questions for the moment. Just to clarify: If I am only using Google Drive as a backup (as in, setting Zotero's Data Directory Location to the Google Drive folder), and if I am not planning to use Zotero on any other computer,…

  in What is this "Pipes" folder in my Zotero folder? Comment by danbashara June 3, 2013
• Thank you so much for this! I'm mid-process right now, but I'm stumped by Step 4. Does this mean that I should open Zotero again and, in the "Advanced" tab, set the Data Directory Location to the "storage" folder that I've just removed from the "Zot…

  in What is this "Pipes" folder in my Zotero folder? Comment by danbashara June 3, 2013
• Thank you for your response! The "pipes" folder is located right inside the main "Zotero" folder, alongside other folders like "locate," "storage," and "styles." I was afraid of something like the link you sent me about alternative syncing solu…

  in What is this "Pipes" folder in my Zotero folder? Comment by danbashara June 2, 2013