Relative file paths in personal collection versus group libraries with absolute paths

gvdbroek · February 13, 2023

Hi! Looking for advice to make my current setup work better: I store my pdfs in our own cloud and use relative file paths in Zotero, which works great! However, I have joined two group libraries which work with absolute paths. If I try to open one of the articles from these, I get an error that the file does not exist. Is there a way to use different settings per library, for instance?

adamsmith · February 13, 2023

Group libraries don't use absolute paths -- they don't use linked files at all (and Zotero stored files are relative). You'd want to make sure that file sync for groups is enabled in the sync tab of the Zotero preferences. If that doesn't help, check that you can actually access the files in question in the web library. If you cannot, the issue is with the sync of whoever added those files.