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Thanks, I'll try drag and drop into an open browser window from Zotero. I think that worked last time I tried it. Regards. nbrefzot.
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Thank you for that reply, sorry about the delay in replying.
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Thanks for the answer, I'll experiment with it, see what happens, the main reason for the mixture of drives in so as not to loose too much if one crashes. Each drive is duplicated and hold a different archive of a particular type of file. The main t…
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Thank you for that answer, it would be possible though to use the base directory to point to one of the disks, would it, the one with the majority of the relocated files on it, and continue to have the true paths for the rest of the linked files. Ot…
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Thank your for that answer, it was probably v4, I started off with that. Regards nbrefzot.
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Hello dstillman, Thank you for all that, it's sorted out all my understanding and misunderstanding of the purpose of those folders. One further question, there is a 'firefox' folder in the AppData\Local\Zotero\Zotero folder, is that used by Zotero …
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Hello adomasven, Yes, I've already moved the data directory onto a USB stick to make it portable, but my understanding is that the Roaming Profile is also unique. So if you move to another computer with just the data directory and not the Roaming P…
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Thank you, I'd missed that bit.
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Well done! I've found out what the problem is. Because of the way I was clicking on the file dialogue 'two' copies of the last folder in the path ended up in the string. So the path in the advanced setting didn't exist. Once the last bit of the stri…
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I don't want to use linked files, I was just using the base directory to illustrate the behaviour of the dialogue, without having to use and change the data directory dialogue. When you say 'Zotero can't find it at startup', the USB stick with the f…
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I'll try it some time, when I'm feeling confident and report back with the results. Thank you for your help.
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I wish I had you confidence that I might not loose my library at some stage in this process, so I'm going to wait for a while before doing anything. I've started a new discussion to see if anyone else has had this problem at: https://forums.zotero.o…
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Hello, Since I've had so many problems moving to new folders in the Files and Folders dialogue, I need to know that there is an option to choose a custom location on the startup dialogue, moving to the default location and then trying to move that t…
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When I first move the folder to this location it worked fine with the setup you're suggesting, but after an upgrade within version 4 that stopped working. After this F:\Zotero location stopped working the only way I could get the path string to 'sti…
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This is the dialogue that appears at startup: https://www.dropbox.com/s/t36zi4uyw1lrwoe/1. v5 Start data directory dialogue.jpg?dl=0 There is no folder at C:\Users\\Zotero There are still Zotero folders in Local and Roaming, the profile is still in …
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The 4 installation was the Standalone, not a portable one, but the 5 is just the standard update. I'll check the dialogue.
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In addition the boxes which display the paths on the Files and Folders tab don't seem to work all that well. It took many attempts to get the custom directory to work with 4 and now I can't get the base directory location to appear in that field.
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No, nothing under the -profile flag. Just the same custom directory as with 4 defined in the Files and Folders tab.
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That's good, thanks for the explanation, I'll try and upgrade to v5, and see how it goes with that.
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How do you specify the profile directory with a command-line flag when you run Zotero? I could add that text to the Properties > Shortcut > "Target" field for the shortcut I start Zotero with could I? Thank you.
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Yes, sorry, I put the wrong location up, it should have been: F:\Zotero\Profiles\automatic_name_string.default\zotero The zotero on the end of that is the data folder, isn't it? That's got the zotero.sqlite and zotero.sqlite.bak and the folders, sto…
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Thank you for that, I think I understand what I can move and delete now, I'll back everything up before I start. I'm still using Standalone 4. My new data directory, which seems to be working is at F:\Zotero\Profiles\.default, might this location ca…