The attachments' name did not match between the view window and the right panel.

emberbillow

I used the 'Rename file from parent metadata' by right click, I found that the name of the file has been changed as shown in the right panel, and the name is also changed after I check the local disk, but in the view window, the name did not change. The issue applies to both 'PDF' and 'snapshot' attachments. Please see the following figure:

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dstillman

https://www.zotero.org/support/file_renaming#attachment_title_vs_filename

emberbillow

I add a pdf file to an item, its name firstly changes as the same as the parent metadata; however, after several seconds, it turns to 'PDF', as shown in the following figure:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u6195194/2sxb6mosz2oel8nyj79p.png

https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u6195194/fv5l0zd24k6is37m7gdq.png

dstillman

Briefly showing the filename as the title is a bug that's being fixed for the next beta. "PDF" is correct, for the reasons explained in the linked documentation.

emberbillow

Do you mean that the file will be forced to be named as 'PDF' in later versions? Can I rename it using the metadata?

dstillman

Again, read the linked section. The filename is named based on the metadata. The title isn't, because there's no reason to duplicate metadata from the item row directly above.

You can manually set the title to whatever you want from the item pane, but Zotero 7 won't set the title to the filename.