Best approach for new setup?
Hello,
I’d love some expert advice about how to proceed.
For the last few years I used a laptop on which I had Zotero installed and had Zotfile running so that when I used the Chrome widget to save a reference to Zotero, the PDF that came with it would be renamed and automatically sent to Google Drive. I did this so that I could then use my iPad to annotate PDFs from that Google Drive folder, which would sync back into the Zotero library. The system worked ok, though not ideal.
Now I have moved over to a new laptop because the old one is crapping out. A ton of the PDFs represented in my Zotero library are on Google Drive, which my new laptop-based Zotero app can't yet find/see. Given the improvements to Zotero, I no longer feel the need to use Google drive because now I can just access and annotate Zotero-stored PDFs directly on the iPad.
My question: Given all this, what is the most straightforward way to use those PDFs, currently on GoogleDrive, going forward? Is there a straightforward way to just bring all those PDFs into Zotero's own storage, still linked with their existing parent items? I’d be happy to do that and exclusively use Zotero going forward.
Thank you for your advice.
I’d love some expert advice about how to proceed.
For the last few years I used a laptop on which I had Zotero installed and had Zotfile running so that when I used the Chrome widget to save a reference to Zotero, the PDF that came with it would be renamed and automatically sent to Google Drive. I did this so that I could then use my iPad to annotate PDFs from that Google Drive folder, which would sync back into the Zotero library. The system worked ok, though not ideal.
Now I have moved over to a new laptop because the old one is crapping out. A ton of the PDFs represented in my Zotero library are on Google Drive, which my new laptop-based Zotero app can't yet find/see. Given the improvements to Zotero, I no longer feel the need to use Google drive because now I can just access and annotate Zotero-stored PDFs directly on the iPad.
My question: Given all this, what is the most straightforward way to use those PDFs, currently on GoogleDrive, going forward? Is there a straightforward way to just bring all those PDFs into Zotero's own storage, still linked with their existing parent items? I’d be happy to do that and exclusively use Zotero going forward.
Thank you for your advice.
Then run the command provided by dstillman
It looks like it's worked!
Going forward from here, I'd like to check what I see as my remaining steps:
i should be able to delete all files from my googledrive (if I want to streamline things); and
if I don't want to mess with GoogleDrive at all for Zotero work, I can just remove the Drive folder from the Linked File Base directory?
Anything else to close that chapter of google+Zotero?
thank you again.