How can I drag and drop a bunch of pdfs while keeping the local pdfs links

I am trying to import a bunch of citations by dragging and dropping many pdfs into Zotero. However, this automatically puts the actual pdfs into Zotero, while I would like to keep just their links to my local computer with the citations metadata.

I've looked online, and in these forums -- however I can't seem to find an answer. I tried going into the General Preferences and unchecking "automatically save pdfs", restarting the Zotero app, and retrying, to no avail.

I've also tried hold Cmd+Opt when dragging and dropping the pdfs, however that did not work either.

Does anyone know how to get around this by chance ?

Thank you very much.
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