188BET靠谱吗Migrating preferences and profile of Zotero 4 for Firefox to another location for use with Zotero 6

testplayer

188BET靠谱吗I need to migrate the preferences and profile (not just the data directory and zotero.sqlite) of Zotero 4 for Firefox to the relevant folder of Zotero 6, in order to avoid manually setting Zotero's preferences one-by-one in the UI window (when eyeballing two preferences UI windows of Zotero 4 and 6, and copying the checkboxes & text fields from one preferences UI window to the other).

188BET靠谱吗For my use case, I noticed that some preferences of Zotero 4 for Firefox are stored in \PortableApps\FirefoxPortableESR\Data\profile\prefs.js, which also contains quite a lot of other settings for Firefox portable and other extensions.188BET靠谱吗However, preferences of Zotero 5 & 6 are stored in \PortableApps\ZoteroPortable\Data\Mozilla\Profile\prefs.js, which doesn't contain too many stuffs other than those related to Zotero.188BET靠谱吗So how can I migrate the preferences of Zotero 4 for Firefox to another location for use with Zotero 6 (without setting them one-by-one manually by eyeballing 2 UI windows)?

188BET靠谱吗I have this concern because for Zotero Better Bibtex, its preferences UI window & tabs contain too many options to manually set one-by-one, and I have too many automatic export in Better Bibtex, which is impractical to manually set one-by-one.188BET靠谱吗It seems that Better Bibtex has a "better-bibtex" folder and several "betterbibtex.sqlite.bak"-like files under my Zotero data directory \PortableApps\FirefoxPortableESR\Data\profile\zotero.188BET靠谱吗If the automatic exports are stored in these files & folder, then probably it's OK to simply copy all the contents from the old Zotero data directory to the new one for Zotero 6 (but please correct me if it's not the case).But if the automatic exports are stored in somewhere else, it would be a nightmare, and I've no idea about how to migrate them...

Thanks in advance!

dstillman

There's only one prefs.js file, in the active profile directory.188BET靠谱吗We can't help with an unofficial build of Zotero.

testplayer

I have the old prefs.js in \PortableApps\FirefoxPortableESR\Data\profile\, and according to 188BET靠谱吗//www.brodersterzo.com/support/kb/profile_directory188BET靠谱吗, the prefs.js used by Zotero 5 & 6 (official build) is stored in the profile directory C:\Users\[User Name]\AppData\Roaming\Zotero\Zotero\Profiles\[randomstring] (whereas for portable build - 188BET靠谱吗https://github.com/pedrom34/ZoteroPortable/188BET靠谱吗, it's in \PortableApps\ZoteroPortable\Data\Mozilla\Profile\).

188BET靠谱吗So now if I simply copy this old prefs.js used by Zotero 4 for Firefox from \PortableApps\FirefoxPortableESR\Data\profile\ to C:\Users\[User Name]\AppData\Roaming\Zotero\Zotero\Profiles\[randomstring] (or \PortableApps\ZoteroPortable\Data\Mozilla\Profile\ for the portable build), will that work?188BET靠谱吗Or in other words, will all preferences of Zotero be migrated to version 6?188BET靠谱吗And since the old prefs.js used by Zotero 4 for Firefox contains quite a lot of other settings for Firefox portable and other extensions, will this create any conflicts or similar (if I simply copy this old prefs.js to Zotero 6's profile directory)?

dstillman

I wouldn't do that, no.188BET靠谱吗All of Zotero's own prefs begin with 188BET靠谱吗extensions.zotero..Plugins likely have prefixes of their own.So I would just copy those lines.

testplayer

Thanks a lot for your prompt reply!I'll try it following your suggestion, and hopefully it will work without any problem or conflict.