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• Just to follow up; the Export-Import approach worked. It took 5 days to export the library, and another to re-import it. But the problem is solved. Thanks to everyone for the help!

  in Looking for help importing a large library from Papers3 into Zotero Comment by bryanc2025 August 27, 2025
• I can also provide the python scripts I used to generate the JSON files from my Papers3 library, and to generate the zotero.sqlite & associated PDFs from the JSON files and the Papers3 library if that would be helpful.

  in Looking for help importing a large library from Papers3 into Zotero Comment by bryanc2025 August 13, 2025
• Thanks for getting back to me. I don't know if it's possible to fix the invalid collection keys without re-writing the code. Since the library seems to work on my local system, I'm exporting it as a Zotero library, and will try re-importing it on …

  in Looking for help importing a large library from Papers3 into Zotero Comment by bryanc2025 August 13, 2025
• [Merged back into this thread — D.S.] Just incase my follow-up post to my other discussion isn't the correct way to report an error, I'm posting this as a new discussion on the forum. The error messages look like this: [JavaScript Error: "'A7Y718R…

  in Looking for help importing a large library from Papers3 into Zotero Comment by bryanc2025 August 12, 2025
• So an update; I got some help from a friendly coder and have successfully imported my library into Zotero. In order to be able to access it on multiple machines, and to ensure that the library is backed up, I purchased cloud storage from Zotero.org…

  in Looking for help importing a large library from Papers3 into Zotero Comment by bryanc2025 August 12, 2025