a ZotFile problem

merrillyeung

I have been using ZotFile for Zotero for a couple of years and I love this plugin very much. Lately, I changed the zotero file storage folder location and of course I changed the associated setting in zotero as well as zotfile; unfortunately, I cannot open those old attached pdf files anymore.

To be specifically,

I used to store all of my research papers at "E:\Nutstore\zotero\storage"; now I moved the storage folder to "E:\Nutstore\OneDrive\Dropbox\zotero\storage". At the same time, I changed the "zotfile preferences - location of files - custom location" to "E:\Nutstore\OneDrive\Dropbox\zotero\storage", and "zotero preferences - advanced - files and folders - base directory" to "E:\Nutstore\OneDrive\Dropbox\zotero\storage". Unfortunately, I cannot open those old attached pdf files anymore (but the new added attached pdf files successfully appeared under the new folder.

So I wander is there any way to relink all those old attached files to the new folder? I only changed the base directory and I expected that the change may work since it uses the relative paths.

If anyone have any suggestions to my situation, please kindly help me. Thanks very much.

merrillyeung

I also tried to test my problem on a new PC. I just copied the storage folder to this PC, then I also changed the associated setting in zotero as well as zotfile. Unfortunately, the items cannot be opened as well. So it's not possible to use zotfile at multiple PCs?

adamsmith

Note this isn't a ZotFile issue -- ZotFile doesn't affect how links are opened, just where linked files are moved to.
If you were using relative links before, this should have worked, so I'm guessing you didn't have anything set as a base directory before?
You should be able to use the Zutilo app to check where current links point and then batch-change them.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/zutilo-utility-for-zotero/