I use Zotero primarily for storage of genealogical data. Many of my items, files and notes are accompanied by information copied from Ancestry or FamilySearch web pages, many of which include tables a

4. I opened Zotero a month or so ago and all my data was there. I opened it today, a pop up showed up saying it was updating the version, now all my library is gone. I do not use any auto-cleaning sof

If you're working on a Mac, I'd recommend an excellent piece of software called TextSoap (https://textsoap.com/mac/) which can be used for all kinds of applications (not Zotero-specific). It comes wit

For example, those who do not use Zotero, and for cleaning a lot of tags. The last is what I am doing right now. I know there is a difference between automatic (orange) and manual (blue) tags, thus/bu

I have a 2Gb storage account in Zotero. These days I have been cleaning my library and I found a problem I cannot solve. My computer storage folder is around 500 Mb, but when I try to synchronize, Zot

[Edit: I've deleted some comments that suggested you might need some third-party app-cleaning tool to delete "service files". Zotero has no such files, and a third-party app wouldn't have any effect o

Or if you're saying that you have a completely empty library, you may have accidentally deleted your entire Zotero database (e.g., using some third-party disk-cleaning tool), or your Zotero may be poi

Unless you can figure out a way to reproduce the issue consistently we won't be able to fix this. I do recommend cleaning up any "{Citation}" text leftover from previous failed insertions from Zotero,

An empty library usually happens when someone accidentally deletes their Zotero data while trying to clear disk space using some external tool — e.g., the built-in macOS disk-cleaning tool.

I'm so sorry that this issue has stuck around for so long! Just pushed a fix. The problem was overzealous cleaning: we were stripping everything before "Journal" in journal titles that contain that wo

While cleaning up my library today, I noticed that I can only delete multiple items if all items are collapsed (items with attachments are closed). Could an enhancement be included to allow for bulk

Yes, please add a feature that allows the user to select multiple tags in the Tag Selector pane to delete. The "Delete Automatic Tags from this Library." was a big help in cleaning up my tag list. How

journal and a few others I've just presumed that cleaning this problem would require my own hand editing of each authors' last name to remove the trash. Perhaps, it might be easier to do on your end

I've been going through my storage folder, and it looks like close to 30% of my PDFs and associated item keys don't have a counterpart in my library. I'm not quite sure how this happened. If you could

See Locating Missing Zotero Data. As explained there, this generally happens when people use a disk-cleaning tool and accidentally delete the Zotero database. Files often wouldn't be in the trash in t

To answer your question: the trick is to use Zotero with its fixed fields for initial "ingestion" of your sources via its various web-browser plugins and other web-scraping abilities. Do initial clea

@ajsarace2: Yes, to be clear, this happens if you use disk-cleaning software to try to free disk space and delete the zotero.sqlite and various .bak files by mistake. You'd want to restore zotero.sqli

I think the only scenario where we've seen this is where some disk-cleaning software has removed the zotero.sqlite database.

Being able to dig into the source and modify the html of my notes by hand is the other thing I'll miss badly. Cleaning up text pasted in from websites and tweaking lists and divs is a big part of how

Similarly, I just spent many hours cleaning up automatic tags. I will have to do all of the work again eventually, as new articles accumulate. If I could just maintain a list of tag replacements exter