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Juris-M is a variant of the free and friendly Zotero research platform, with support for legal and multilingual materials.
https://juris-m.github.io
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`%HOME%/Juris-M` is now `%HOME%/Jurism` and `\AppData\Roaming\Zotero` is `\AppData\Roaming\Jurism` #127

Open galantra opened 1 year ago

galantra commented 1 year ago

I installed 6.0.22m3; previous installed version was probably 6.0.22m2. I opened Juris-M and noticed that the whole database was gone, it was as if I had never ever had an installation.

I located the jurism.sqlite file and noticed that there are two folders in %HOME%:

  1. my old folder, named Juris-M
  2. a new folder named Jurism that was created on the day when I installed 6.0.22m3.

Then I created a symbolic link from %HOME%/Jurism to %HOME%/Juris-M. I opened Juris-M and noticed that while my database was back, my custom theme, columns and sorting were reset.

I saw that %APPDATA% has a new folder created on the day when I installed 6.0.22m3, too. I made a symbolic link again. Now everything is as before.

Suggested fix

I suggest that the installation of the newest versions automatically move data from the old folders to the new folders.

fbennett commented 1 year ago

Yes, this is alarming and needs to be addressed. I'll look at automating the move, but as an immediate fix, we can put an explanation of the change in directory name in the first-run notice that appears in the center pane of Jurism when the database is empty.