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  • Dan sorry to bother you again. this is a firefox zone alarm problem i think. my question is the advice from zonealarm forum is to downgrade firefox. will doing so further screw my attempts to locate files? or is this something i should do? again t…
    in Lost library Comment by in need of help October 10, 2009
  • thanks for you help i appreciate it. i'll try to find out. are there any file extensions apart from the zotero.sqlite. etc i should be searching to try to find this data?
    in Lost library Comment by in need of help October 10, 2009
  • sorry i'm not a technical person i mean that the zotero.sqlite. and bak and storage have none of the data in them that i have saved (that's why I mean they are smaller than they should be). the storage has nothing and both files are way too …
    in Lost library Comment by in need of help October 10, 2009
  • yes i am only using one account. the only other thing i can think of is that those smaller files are coming up as modified yesterday, which i didn't do but it was around the time all my updates went through. but it is weird that the first few t…
    in Lost library Comment by in need of help October 10, 2009
  • hi thanks for this. i've searched the prefs.js files that i could find and there is no mention of "extensions.zotero.dataDir" and "extensions.zotero.lastDataDir" in either. should that be there?
    in Lost library Comment by in need of help October 10, 2009
  • sorry my mistake i just searched profiles on my system and it came up with what looked like different locations but weren't. sorry its 6am i've been up all night trying to fix this. i appreciate your help, but it seems I am screwed since I can'…
    in Lost library Comment by in need of help October 10, 2009
  • I only have one firefox profile where zotero is C:\Documents and Settings\Anon\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox and this is where the older zotero stuff is stored but no sign of the newer stuff and I can't find another profile anywhere. i can…
    in Lost library Comment by in need of help October 10, 2009
  • Ok thanks. one quick question. I seem to have discovered a corrupt file in my mozilla profile called places.sqlite.corrupt would this have anything to do with? i have no idea what this file even is. i seem to have one large profile file, with…
    in Lost library Comment by in need of help October 10, 2009
  • Hi Dan thanks for the prompt response. I didn't set up a custom data directory that I am aware of doing unless it can somehow do this by itself? can firefox mess with this. I have tried looking for other profiles and can't find any. it's all comin…
    in Lost library Comment by in need of help October 10, 2009