BPawson

Thank you, that alleviates my worry. I now have more storage on Zotero.org and have synced recently. I was concerned, I think, that if I restore my Mac with/without these back-ups that perhaps when next synced it might somehow corrupt/or flush the m…

in "Profile Missing" after Firefox update Comment by BPawson January 17, 2018

Something else has come up. I have a backup of C:\user_name\Library\Application Support\Zotero that in this location \Profiles\hppskl8x.default\zotero contains a number of 8 character named folders (e.g. 2NZHWMUB) some of which windows reports are '…

in "Profile Missing" after Firefox update Comment by BPawson January 16, 2018

Thanks again, you've been a fantastic help. I installed Zotero 5.0 for Windows and the Connector for Opera, synced everything up starting from a recovered 2016 back-up I had (the recent disaster did not allow me to recover the much more complete zot…

in "Profile Missing" after Firefox update Comment by BPawson November 1, 2017

I _wish_ I could do this...things have gone from bad to much worse. It seems the drive was failing (perhaps files were corrupted in some early phase of this?) at any rate, I'm now hoping that I may just have backed up enough information that I can r…

in "Profile Missing" after Firefox update Comment by BPawson November 1, 2017

Here's some more weirdness. Apparently that 'folder' ("zotero", lower case, unknown size, unknown access) is an alias; although it does not say that in 'get info' -- but if I try to open it I get 'the alias can't be opened because the original item …