This makes cleaning up my library much more difficult. I typically prefer not to have both a webpage and a PDF file with a snaphot of just an abstract for the same document. I also usually delete webp

I have a rather lengthy dissertation I am working through, and have found at least 20 or so duplicates. I did use the merge tool when I came across duplicates, so I'm not sure where I caused this err

also tried disabling the "Automatically attach associated PDFs ...", setting and set the "Linked Attachement Base Directory" (even if identical on all computers). The worst part is not only the messag

like to know if there is a way of automatically cleaning up these duplicates. For my little test collection it wouldn't be a problem to do this manually, but for my main collection (comprising thousa

They look pretty good for the most part (the Siggelkow one needs some cleaning in the metadata - you can't assume that all Zotero imports are always 100% correct).

My ten-year-old version 1 of Mekentosj's Papers app has been staggering under the weight of my 28,000 PDFs and its own design flaws and missing features. I finally have enough time to migrate the libr

While possible, I'm not sure it's ideal to work with a single account. It will work well initially, but problems will start once people will want their own Zotero accounts and then have to be walked t

the easiest thing at this point while I work on cleaning up the code a bit more.

This kind of search is also important for other aspects of cleaning your library, like searching for items without attachments, looking for items missing titles, authors, journals, etc.

notwithstanding some minor bugs and the need for cleaning up and documenting the code. For the moment I'm using the extra field as you indicated, but I just wanted to signal that it would be a small

There is "Duplicated items" collection in zotero that can clean items that is "save to zotero" several times in several collections. But this cleaning is post process.

Cleaning up individual fields is another issue, but I think it must be done manually at this point. (For example, see: https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/comment/321504#Comment_321504 or https://for

I can't imagine this is related to Zotero. Just be aware that there are many types of fake "security" or "cleaning" programs for Mac, claiming they will remove viruses, clean up your computer, etc., b

After cleaning up all such files I emptied the trash. (Maybe I had renamed a tag before emptying the trash?)

If this is becoming too inconvenient and you don't need attached PDFs, you can add all items to en EBSCO folder, then export that to RIS and import into Zotero. We do some cleaning of the RIS on impor

Assuming that "local backup" was done following option A here: https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/transferring_a_library , i.e. by moving the data directory rather than using export/import, then you're

@dstillman, thanks. I solved my immediate problem by exporting as a CSV (with notes), cleaning up the format (both removing many columns, and also then removing HTML codes from the notes, etc.), and t

but apparently these were only warnings. After cleaning that up in the original bib file, I tryed the import, but it will just hang after a couple hundred references (I have about 4000 in total). I s

In case someone wants to try to debug this, if it helps here's an entry I just found while cleaning my collection using @adamsmith 's saved search:

Probably the easiest now is to either sort on the field you are cleaning up or to make a saved search with the field to be cleaned up (e.g., an author’s last name that you want to make consistent) and