Moving Collections from Local Read-Only Group to another Group

sdflewrit783

I would like to move the references AND their collections from the local read-only group (a remnant of the group that was deleted online) to another existing group.However, I can move the references but not the collections.Dragging the collections in the desktop version does not seem to be doing anything.Is it possible?Am I missing something?

dstillman

Have you dragged the collection to the group previously?

sdflewrit783

Not sure what you mean.金博宝世界杯体育赛事It does work fine with my other groups.

dstillman

If you've previously dragged that collection to that group, you'll need to delete the existing collection in the group and drag again.It won't let you drag a collection you've already dragged (but it will automatically add the items already dragged to that library back to the new collection).

(We know this is awkward, and it will be improved in a future version.)

sdflewrit783

No, I have not dragged anything anywhere from this group previously.I was trying to move items from a read-only group to an empty group.I have just manually recreated the collection and the group is now deleted.So, I cannot do furtehr testing but you can try to make a new group, sync, delete online, choose to retain the local read-only copy and then attempt to move collections from it to another group.It did not work.

dstillman

OK, I can reproduce that — it actually fails to copy a collection from any read-only library.We'll fix this.Thanks for reporting.

dstillman

This is fixed in the latest 188BET靠谱吗Zotero beta188BET靠谱吗, and the fix will be included in Zotero 5.0.88.

sdflewrit783

Thanks.