Synchronization - from different old versions

KorosiK

Hi guys,
please help me in the following topic.

188BET靠谱吗A patron uses Zotero on different computers, he would like to synchronize now all of them.How will it work?Let's suppose, that he uses computers A, B and C.

Comp.A contains the most recent bibliographic data, so synchronization should start from here.If account details are entered into the sync.session of comp.B, what is going to happen?
Data from Comp.B goes up into the cloud, overwriting the most recent data (uploaded from Comp.A), or will data be downloaded from the cloud to Comp.B?In which direction will start the synchronization?

188BET靠谱吗What happens, if Zotero is deleted from Comp.B and C, will the downloaded PDFs also disappear?I had an idea: to synchronize from Comp.188BET靠谱吗A., delete the software from the other computers, download Zotero again, and add account data for synchronizing - but if PDFs disappear, it cannot work.

Many thanks for your help.

dstillman

1) Syncing syncs — it applies the changes you made on each device.It doesn't just pick a side and delete all other data.188BET靠谱吗(You can manually use Replace Online Library from the Sync → Reset pane of the Zotero settings, but that's generally only necessary if you restored from a backup — say, from before some accidental deletions — and want to overwrite all other devices with the older version.)

2) In this case, it's not clear how the data got on the different computers.If it was done by using export/import, or by saving the same items from the web, these would be in effect unrelated items, and syncing now would result in duplicates.

188BET靠谱吗3) Deleting the Zotero app has no effect on local data.If you reinstall it, you'll see the same data that was there before.So that won't work to prevent local data from being uploaded.

Generally speaking, if one computer has all the data you want and the others have other libraries (maybe made via export/import, maybe saved manually) you want to get rid of, you could just delete the 188BET靠谱吗Zotero data directoryon those other computers.But if it's anything other than that, you'll need to explain further.(Specifically, I'm not sure what you mean re: PDFs.Are you saying the other computers have PDFs that need to be kept?How were those libraries created, and how do they relate to the library on Computer A?)

tim820

188BET靠谱吗Is your data on the two computers under different (online) Zotero account names ?

KorosiK

Thanks a lot, dstillman.

2) by saving different or partially the same items from the web to different computers.

Thanks for the explanation.188BET靠谱吗So, the best way is to remove the Zotero data directory from Comp.B and C., and synchronize with the most recent data uploaded from Comp.A.It works if there is nothing to be kept (from Comp.B and C), otherwise, there will be duplicates, right?

I think the patron used different computers parallel without synchronizing, and now he would like to unify the data on all of them.

KorosiK

Re: tim820, I think they are under the same account.

dstillman

Yes, if there's nothing to be kept, deleting the B and C data directories is the best option.

If the amount of overlap is minimal, the alternative would be to just sync all three and use duplicate detection to merge some items, but beyond a small number of duplicate items that would get tedious.

KorosiK

Many thanks, dstillman!