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• I don't know what you think you're accomplishing here by arguing with us, but you are wasting people's time, and you are going to get banned from posting here if you keep this up. -- hardly the way to talk to people who come here with problems and…

  in The Zotero data directory could not be found at ..., but a data directory was found at... Comment by mkery January 2, 2021
• you tell me you are submitting your software to third parties and telling them "do what you want with it, including the disruption of its proper functioning" ? the mentioned disruption here being data loss through such a grave error as the failure…

  in The Zotero data directory could not be found at ..., but a data directory was found at... Comment by mkery January 2, 2021
• seems like you did in the past: https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/72022/move-database-to-another-drive-device-on-linux

  in The Zotero data directory could not be found at ..., but a data directory was found at... Comment by mkery January 2, 2021
• yes, Zotero I used is installed from flatpak. I checked inside the related folder (home/user/.var/app(org.zotero.Zotero), but there is no hint of data there except the cache folder which I didnt further try. (the data there is a heap of randomly na…

  in The Zotero data directory could not be found at ..., but a data directory was found at... Comment by mkery January 1, 2021
• When you create a new secondary profile, and ~/Zotero already exists and is linked to by an existing profile, it automatically creates a data directory named after the new profile (e.g., "~/Zotero Test"). -- I created a test profile, and there is …

  in The Zotero data directory could not be found at ..., but a data directory was found at... Comment by mkery January 1, 2021
• If you were using Zotero, you had a data directory. It's now missing. But if Zotero is looking for it, it definitely existed previously, and Zotero didn't delete it. It literally has no way of doing so. -- so you are telling me that the warning is…

  in The Zotero data directory could not be found at ..., but a data directory was found at... Comment by mkery January 1, 2021
• "It sounds like you did something to move or delete the new data directory. Zotero certainly didn't delete it — there's literally no code to do so. You can search for other zotero.sqlite files on your system. " -- definitely done nothing. I wrote …

  in The Zotero data directory could not be found at ..., but a data directory was found at... Comment by mkery January 1, 2021
• When you create a new secondary profile, and ~/Zotero already exists and is linked to by an existing profile, it automatically creates a data directory named after the new profile (e.g., "~/Zotero Test"). -- definitely not. this is the problem. I…

  in The Zotero data directory could not be found at ..., but a data directory was found at... Comment by mkery January 1, 2021
• correct

  in The Zotero data directory could not be found at ..., but a data directory was found at... Comment by mkery January 1, 2021
• looks like one of those software version upgrades that wreaks havoc without prior notice. perhaps you could be kind enough to let me know where I'd find my lost data?

  in The Zotero data directory could not be found at ..., but a data directory was found at... Comment by mkery January 1, 2021
• when tried with a test profile, it seems there is no single way to create a custom folder path. one gets a warning that says the folder is empty (what were a newly created folder supposed to have been?) or else the default /home/user/Zotero is selec…

  in The Zotero data directory could not be found at ..., but a data directory was found at... Comment by mkery January 1, 2021