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> Zotero is open source and developed by an independent, nonprofit organization that has no financial interest in your private information. With Zotero, you alw
by tony_cannistra 9mo ago
> Zotero is open source and developed by an independent, nonprofit organization that has no financial interest in your private information. With Zotero, you always stay in control of your own data.
Refreshing as a cool breeze on a hot summer's day.
- bayindirh 9mo agoPersonally I use Zotero with my own WebDAV server for sync. Works as advertised, without a hitch.
- pseudalopex 9mo agoDid you sync all data to multiple computers without a Zotero account? Zotero's documentation said WebDAV could sync attachment files. But everything else required a Zotero account.[1] [1] https://www.zotero.org/support/sync https://www.zotero.org/support/sync
- jmhammond 9mo agoI do both. I have the Zotero account for the library and webdav for the pdf files.
- pseudalopex 9mo agoThe question was could all data be synced without a Zotero account.
- jmhammond 9mo agoMy understanding then is the answer is “probably no.”
- bayindirh 9mo agoNo you can't. I have both a Zotero account and a WebDAV server. Since bulk of the load is the attachments, doing it this way doesn't bother me, actually.
- ulnarkressty 9mo agoRight up until one tries to set up a self-hosted server (spoiler - you can't, at least not without 'significant effort' - they themselves say that if you ask about it).
- einpoklum 9mo agoIs this intentional crippling / obfuscation, or did they just bother to do the necessary work for the server-side software robust enough to run on different HW & SW setups?
- tingletech 9mo agoI think it's the latter
- gdevenyi 9mo agoOr try to build it yourself.
- bonsai_spool 9mo agoI haven't had an issue doing this with a standard WebDAV server and this has been true since 2007 or so.
- ajb 9mo agoMy understanding is that that works for personal use. If you want to use a group library, not so much. Which can be considered fair, as mostly organisations which should be able to help fund zotero are the ones that need group libraries.
- wycx 9mo agoI had a very convenient setup using linked files stored in Dropbox that worked very well for 15 years. The Zotero 6 to 7 upgrade completely broke this, and modified the database so that rollback is not possible. There was no warning that this workflow would be completely broken on upgrade.
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