Rename from parent metadata bug
A minor but persistent annoyance: fairly often when I rename a PDF from parent metadata, it fails to rename and breaks the link to the item. This seems to happen mostly, but I think not always, when the PDF file is a read-only file. Sometimes I can then find the file with the "Show File" button. Sometimes that doesn't work; then I have to click on the PDF name, get an error message (saying the file cannot be found and must have been moved outside Zotero), click on the button for finding the file, and then it turns it up in a Zotero directory. From there I can get the name and reimport it to Zotero. But there should be a way of preventing that from happening in the first place, no?
C:\Data\Zotero\storage\R47NW8IR\The Struggle for the Soul of Health Insurance (Stone - 1993).pdf.
As described before, I had to use "Locate" from the error message "the attached file could not be found"; that got me to the properly named file, but it was not connected to the item, so I had to go find it in a file manager and drag it back into the item. It was a read-only file.
Thanks for your help.
The only similar thing I have seen is this:
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/11037/cannot-find-file-after-renaming-from-parent-metadata
but that doesn't seem to be related.
You would do a service - and help to work towards a solution - if you could do some testing: Try out different type of filenames. Try if this occurs for all read-only pdfs or just for some (if the latter - can you discern a pattern?)
Maybe Dan will have additional requests for troubleshooting.
The reason for the read-only files is that for some reason when I download pdfs from JStor, EBSCO, etc they come as read-only. I usually remember to change them, but occasionally I forget and then run into the problem I have described. If someone could explain how to avoid the read-only downloads it would be another way to solve the problem! I've tried, but failed.