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Sync zotero library to google drive10/3/2023 In the following post, I will walk you through the steps I did to configure Zotero on multiple machines sharing a single library I cannot guarantee this will work on every computer, but if your setup exactly matches what I describe below, it should work. This is the route I opted for, and with a little trial and error, I found a system that is working very well for me (almost perfect, but not quite, to quote Shel Silverstein). It is possible, however, to set up your Zotero database using ZotFile to link all your attachments to a shared folder such as DropBox or Box. There is one very easy way you can move your Zotero attachments to another folder where they are visible to the naked eye, so to speak, and that is the ZotFile plugin, but ZotFile, rather unavoidably, does not play well with the WebDAV solution mentioned above. However, if you like to access your files easily through the Finder, this can be annoying. This is intentional to protect your data, you’re not supposed to be able to easily find and manipulate your files directly. By default, Zotero puts each attachment in a separate folder, buried deep within its directory system and assigned a random number.However, if you opt for one of these solutions, you may be turned off by another issue: One option is to simply pay $20/year to get 2GB of storage space on Zotero, or you can pair it up with a service like Box or Google Drive through the WebDAV protocol (see Zotero’s sync documentation more links at the bottom of this page). Sharing PDFs between your computers may become dicey if your library becomes too big.For many users, the default settings are perfectly fine, but there are some potential drawbacks that some (such as myself) may wish to address: Zotero is one of the most robust citation management systems out there-open source, free, and great at grabbing metadata and files straight from the web-and with a little tweaking, it can become a great way to organize and maintain a large library of PDFs.
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