Z7 - File names NOT changing

potheekaami · 2024-11-11T21:21:56+00:00

One of my fav features was to change filename of attachments using parent meta data.

Once I updated to Z7 for my macOS Sonoma, I keep getting a notification that the file name was changed but in essence it would still show "Full text PDF." I tried logging out, restarting, etc.

I do not know how to resolve this problem.

Is there a way to fall back to Z6?

dstillman · 2024-11-11T21:22:06+00:00

https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/attachment_title_vs_filename

potheekaami · 2024-11-11T21:42:46+00:00

Thank you dstillman for the prompt response.

But I do not think Zotero should dictate whether it was unnecessary to rename files to parent names or not. It should be an user's choice.

Is there a way to still do that?

dstillman · 2024-11-11T22:00:09+00:00

No, you're misunderstanding. Files have always been renamed. They were being renamed without your manually running Rename File from Parent Metadata before, and they're still being renamed in Zotero 7. It's just no longer changing the attachment title — what shows in the items list — when manually running Rename File from Parent Metadata, for the reasons explained on the linked page.

We have additional changes coming, but the previous behavior was inconsistent and illogical, which is why it was a bug.