But assuming all the zotero.sqlite files are 1 MB, you or something on your system (e.g., some sort of system-cleaning software) deleted your Zotero database, leaving behind just the 'storage' folder

Unfortunately not: The ? delimits query parameters that can absolutely be used to distinguish different URLs. (see e.g. https://forums.zotero.org/search?Search=cleaning vs. https://forums.zotero.org/s

hi, when importing a webpage, its URL is taken as is, what means that often it ends with a long and unwanted a referrer string:

I am considering moving almost the entirety of My Library to a Group, and keep only those items in My Library that are not being moved. I created this group many years ago with the intent it will be a

In terms of post-save data cleaning, deleting a field from Extra is easier,

In terms of post-save data cleaning, deleting a field from Extra is easier, so my general preference would be to put these under a generic “Comment” in Extra and leave it from there.

I'm happy to change this for new/updated translators if there's clear guidance, but I won't spend time cleaning up old translators, leaving that too people with stronger opinions.

was just moved. The reason I want to do the cleaning through the web library interface is because I would like to clean the database before installing (and syncing) zotero on a computer I have, which

The reason I want to do the cleaning through the web library interface is because I would like to clean the database before installing (and syncing) zotero on a computer I have, which has very limited

I'm not really clear your question. If you want to wipe out all your local data — from all your libraries — you can always just unlink your account from the Sync pane of the preferences, tell it to de

her Zotero tool; I want to participate in this cleaning through the web library interface. Then, I want to restart from clean my zotero on my computer, to ensure i don't eat up disk space unnecessarl

Hello,

Trying to migrate from Mendeley to Zotero (latest). Downgraded Mendeley to v. 1.18 (with cleaning up all the old traces from 1.19.4). Mendeley works ok, no issues. When I try 'File-Import-Mendeley' I

In general it is always helpful to be able to see the content in a database particularly for data cleaning. the data that comes in from other sites including libraries and publishers is often very mes

This allows me to supervise their work (data cleaning etc.), but the groups do not have access to other groups' libraries. Each group needs to compile a bibliography on the same topic, and the next s

I have no idea how long I will have to sit there cleaning up these files -- hours? days?

Are you running any non-standard security/cleaning software on this computer?

Hi, was "cleaning" some caches and acciddentaly deleted the zotero.sqlite

— perhaps some sort of extremely misguided cleaning tool — deleted the .sqlite file and all of the normal backups Zotero makes in that directory.

I have been trying to clean my database. And when cleaning up duplicates, I have a problem which makes the cleaning very slow : the Zotero system is very efficient for most fields, I just need to sele