Short cut for importing .nbib files into Zotero?

kleedham

I have hundreds of .nbib files that I need to import. Currently I open Zotero, go to the file menu, select import, choose the next file (this takes me ages to find the right one from my huge list - I can't select multiple), double click it, unselect 'place into new collection, next, finish.

That's eight clicks per file, so this is going to take me over a thousand clicks.

I've tried associating Zotero with .nbib files which would just mean I needed to double click each file, but that doesn't actually import the .nbib file!

Is there a bulk import function for .nbib? If not, I'm going to have to import it all into endnote, then export it into Zotero.

Help please!

adamsmith

You can concatenate nbib files into a single file -- e.g. on a Mac/Linux machine, cd-ing into the directory that has all the nbib files and running
cat *.nbib > nbib-complete.txt
should work (the .txt file extension is on purpose to avoid adding the file to itself. Zotero doesn't care about the extension on import.

I believe in Windows Powershell this will work (again, once you're in the right directory -- there's a Windows option to open Powershell in the current directory from Windows explorer):
Get-Content .\*.nbib| Out-File .\nbib-complete.txt
though I don't work with Powershell much.