Show File link is incorrect

mothlight
Zotero 7.0.15 on Ubuntu 22.04

Right click a pdf, show file. What opens in the Dolphin file manager is a directory:

/home/kerryn/.zotero/zotero/hmx35jvq.default/zotero/storage/CW28S7J8/Kerry A Nice et al. - 2025 - Effects of city design on transport mode choice and exposure to health risks during and after a cris-.pdf/

Which doesn't exist.

It should show the file
Kerry A Nice et al. - 2025 - Effects of city design on transport mode choice and exposure to health risks during and after a cris-.pdf

in the directory
/home/kerryn/.zotero/zotero/hmx35jvq.default/zotero/storage/CW28S7J8/

I assume adding the trailing slash is the problem.
  • dstillman
    1) How did you install Zotero? Via the official tarball or a third-party package?

    2) While it shouldn't matter, is there a reason you still have your data directory within the profile directory? That was the location in the original Zotero extension for Firefox, and Zotero should've migrated that to "Zotero" in your home folder years ago.

    3) Can you provide a Debug ID for reproducing this?
  • mothlight
    1) Ok, good questions. I can't remember exactly how I installed it, but looking at the installation directions, I'm reasonably sure that I would have used the tarball which I moved to /opt. Looking at opt, it looks like I installed 7.0.5 and it has since updated to 7.0.15.

    knice@7020l-215305-l:/opt$ ls -l
    total 156
    drwxrwxr-x 8 knice knice 4096 Jun 12 14:54 Zotero_linux-x86_64_7.0.5

    knice@7020l-215305-l:~/.local/share/applications$ ls -l
    total 168
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 knice knice 45 Sep 19 2024 zotero.desktop -> /opt/Zotero_linux-x86_64_7.0.5/zotero.desktop

    2) I installed the Firefox plugin years ago and then never used it. Last year I migrated everything from Mendeley and started using Zotero. I guess the new installation just used whatever was already set up.

    3) 871925755
  • dstillman
    That’s not a Debug ID.
  • mothlight
    D1658254979
  • mothlight
    Trying again. Nothing happened when I tried show file.
    D444594386
  • dstillman
    edited 8 days ago
    (3)(+0000002): Revealing /home/[…]/.zotero/zotero/hmx35jvq.default/zotero/storage/CW28S7J8/Kerry A Nice et al. - 2025 - Effects of city design on transport mode choice and exposure to health risks during and after a cris-.pdf
    We just call the underlying Firefox reveal() function on the file, so I'm afraid there's not much else we can do here.

    Since other people haven't reported this, I would test switching back to Nautilus to see if that helps.

    You should also close Zotero and move your data directory (the last 'zotero', containing 'storage') to be 'Zotero' in your home folder. Zotero should automatically switch to that location when it starts up.
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