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  1. How to safely rebuild Zotero Library from a current sub-folder of "Library"

    by pmikeyreid · June 5, 2024
    I recently did a bit of a clean up to remove duplicates and find as many missing PDF's as I could for my existing library. I did this by exporting the library to CSV, deleting any duplicates or docs w
  2. Error while exporting Zotero Library

    by zudomishima · May 31, 2024
    selected file." I have tried uninstall-install, cleaning all cache and temp files from my MacOS, and even restarted my computer. Any help would be appreciated.
  3. Missing Database

    by munni117 · May 17, 2024
    Again, from reading other forum posts, it seems that the only solution you give is that the user must have deleted it when cleaning the disk. But, I haven't done anything like that since using Zotero
  4. Question about QUAL Data Cleaning (NVivo Users!)

    by s1968258 · May 17, 2024
    Quick question that I need to answer before I can begin coding. My final sample size is 234 records and I'm exporting from ZOTERO. However, 158 of those records do not have a PDF attached. These file…
  5. Storage still full after deleting a lot of items

    by haoq · April 27, 2024
    Hello, I have a 2GB storage plan that is almost full. I performed a deep cleaning of my Zotero program, removing many items with attachments, and now I only have a few items left in my library, with t
  6. Zotero cannot sync successfully across two macs with ERROR 587889869

    by shunkang · April 9, 2024
    Moreover, I even tried to reset the history and unlink the account with cleaning all local data file. However, it still miss a lot of files after the sync.
  7. Do I need all these zotero.sqlite files?

    by dstillman · March 16, 2024
    This discussion was created from comments split from: Help with cleaning up files/dirs.
  8. Cleaning up the plug-ins page

    by whuber · March 14, 2024
    The list of plug-ins includes many that are deprecated, some that won't run in 7.x and some that didn't even run in 5.x. Might they be organised accordingly, or filters for compatibility be added?
  9. How many attachments do I have?

    by Halfwit · March 11, 2024
    UPDATE -The "Duplicate Problem" is solved by simply emptying the Trash. Now can resume cleaning up my attachment directory.
  10. Distinguishing between linked and un-linked citations in Word

    by tomabel · March 9, 2024
    I'm cleaning up citations in a large manuscript that has been worked on by numerous people over a few years, and I'm discovering that references are a mix of ones linked to the Zotero library we're cu
  11. PDFs missing from library

    by julfischer · March 3, 2024
    When I finished cleaning up the library I switched the accounts on my laptop again to import the new, "cleaned" library to this account. However, now apparently all of the original PDFs from this libr
  12. Can you update item details (Info) of an existing item using identifier or URL

    by millera1 · March 1, 2024
    Hi. I am cleaning up a Zotero Group library that has a lot of items that have very brief or incorrect citation details. I was wondering if there is any way to use the DOI or other identifier in the re
  13. Reports and Annotated Bibliographies

    by kenwhitehurst · February 28, 2024
    into a .docx or .rtf word processor. It's like cleaning up a dog's breakfast. How about a report option at list to just display flush left text (e.g. label: text) with just the basic text formatting
  14. Feature Request: Lists (of Authors/Journals/Institutions)

    by tim820 · February 1, 2024
    do often point you to things that might need cleaning up in your library, such as the same journal stored with different spellings, mis-spelled or redundant tags, or the same author stored in differe
  15. Need for OCR plug-in

    by documut · January 21, 2024
    At the end if zotero or any plugin developer would created a plugin for ocr purpose. It would be limited and wouldn't give best results without lots options like skewing, unpapering, cleaning, rotatin
  16. cleaning up unlinked files in Storage folder from zotfile > internal storage move

    by sqrtx · January 21, 2024
    I set up Zotero using zotfile before moving everything to internal storage about half a year ago, which worked very well. I do not use sync. I do have daily automatic backups but they don't reach tha…
  17. [FEATURE REQUEST] Drop-down list of existing tags in Web Clipper (a la Evernote)

    by peterozumurray · December 30, 2023
    This would be an incredibly helpful feature on Zotero as well, particularly when I'm on a research clipping binge, so I don't have to flip back and forth between the browser and the Zotero app. Otherw
  18. can not change the linkmode

    by SunWenxiang · December 30, 2023
    hello,some trouble happens when I use zotero, it reports that "zotero can not change the linkmode", and I check and try to repair it by cleaning the trash as the former discussion suggested, but it f
  19. Help with cleaning up files/dirs

    by mdot · December 4, 2023
    Hi, I've been using Zotero for years, somewhat haphazardly. I use zotfile to rename/move pdf files to a directory (sync-folder/%T/%y/) & I cloud sync that. But I've still got a ton of stuff stored in…
  20. Feature request: "number of annotations" column

    by nedcr · November 13, 2023
    This would help during merging, and also while cleaning out the trash.
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