This would support cleaning up complex collection structures ...

collection when you clean your library (spring cleaning).

This suggests that you did have the files on this computer. In that case, you likely ran some sort of disk-cleaning tool (even the built-in macOS one) to try to clear disk space and accidentally wiped

I tried restarting, then app-cleaning with reinstalling Zotero (and restarting) and also removing all add-ons, and the problem persists. It's working fine on my other computer.

5) Fifth is after clicking through all the columns and restarting. So clicking through all columns seems to have some "cleaning" effect. The arrow is kept on the last column that I had clicked, but th

Thanks @hsiangyu_wong . That's a really useful add-on. I have recently been cleaning up author formatting problems (separating full names where they were under lastname, removing trailing comma added

Second, the disk-cleaning tool was MacKeeper, but in all fairness, the fault was entirely mine. I deleted the "cleaned-up" files without looking at them first. Very stupid, I know.

If you don't mind, what disk-cleaning tool did you use? I'm a bit curious how people end up doing this — it seems like somewhat of a failure of the tool to suggest wiping out arbitrary unknown files.

I am running Mac OS Monterey 12.4 and accidentally deleted my Zotero library using a disk cleaning tool. Unfortunately, I had not backed up the data directory and I was not using Zotero syncing.

> AlphaClean: Automatic Generation of Data Cleaning Pipelines

I am having this same challenge of repeating references. Even after cleaning the library of duplicates and updated, it still coming up with repeating references. I now have two sets of in-citations, a

We are subscribing to Zotero Labs. We wanted to make some cleaning up in the storage. But before deleting some user's emails from the email list of the storage, we want to make sure that those users

The files aren syncing because of quota. Did you forced the sync after cleaning the bin? :)

If the false duplcates issue can be solved, that would save me a lot of time of manually cleaning up the library, or from suffering of have different versions of the same paper. I believe that this fu

For my case, I occasionally do literature reviews on different topics, and hence, I need to import the relevant papers at different times. Many times, some duplicates will be imported. If the false d

files outside of Zotero (e.g., by using a disk-cleaning tool), in which case your only option would be restoring from a backup that you've made.

While cleaning up, I accidentally deleted my Duplicates Collection in my left pane. Unsure how to get it back... (Not in trash and cannot undo)

There's no way for this to occur on the same computer where you added the files unless you or something else (e.g., a disk-cleaning tool) deleted files outside of Zotero, and even if you did that, if

But there should be a facility. When we are talking about DATA Science, "BIG DATA" & ANALYTICS, there is no tool available for bibliometric analysis (not even in R) for local data. When we are analyz

specifically the EP shouldn't be there and should indeed indicate a page range. It's a bit of a borderline case, so we can look at cleaning this up on import. cc @AbeJellinek