Cross-platform file links

liquidporkgun
I would like to use the same Zotero database to manage my references on multiple computers running different OS's. I am able to mirror my files just fine on the different computers, but the problem comes with file links. If I take a snapshot of a page with Zotero on my Linux machine, then try to access the snapshot on a windows machine, the path wouldn't be right so I wouldn't be able to access it. Has anyone encountered/dealt with this problem?

Thanks in advance, Brian
  • Tjowens
    edited April 22, 2008
    If you store all your files in Zotero's storage folder you should be able to access the attachments from any of the machines.
  • dstillman
    What you describe—accessing imported snapshots across platforms—should work fine, since the paths are stored relative to the Zotero storage directory.

    There's not currently a way to access files/snapshots stored outside of the Zotero storage directory across platforms, but there have been requests for storing relative paths from a configurable root directory. I don't know how we'd store arbitrary links not relative to a particular directory across platforms, though.

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