Opened 10 years ago

Closed 10 years ago

#359 closed enhancement (fixed)

Ability to store Zotero directory outside of Firefox profile directory

Reported by: dstillman Owned by: dstillman
Priority: major Milestone:
Component: data layer Version: future
Keywords: Cc:

Description

Location of the Zotero directory would be stored as a pref

Shouldn't be too hard, but it'd have to elegantly deal with missing directories and related issues... For example, prompt the user whether to create a new external Zotero directory if one is missing (instead of automatically initializing, as it does now for the main directory).

Change History (1)

comment:1 Changed 10 years ago by dstillman

  • Resolution set to fixed
  • Status changed from new to closed

(In [1203]) Closes #359, Ability to store Zotero directory outside of Firefox profile directory

Customizable in the preferences

Also improves handling of Zotero startup errors, adding the ability to customize the tooltiptext of the status bar error icon and to have ZoteroPane.toggleDisplay() run a customizable error function (it no longer opens an empty and broken Zotero pane). For example, a missing Z directory now prompts the user to locate the directory.

Various code parts now check for the Zotero object and Zotero.initialized before trying to do stuff, which should cut down on redundant error lines in the console and generally make things cleaner.

Refs #542, Better icons for preferences window -- need icon for Advanced prefpane

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