Upgrade StorageAttachment base directory path update issue
I am using multiple collections of papers with linked files attached using ZotFile. Each collection was linked via separate relative paths - an artifact of the way I used Zotfile. The idiocy of this situation has struck me now and am trying to change them into absolute paths.
The collection I was last using - I was able to convert all the linked files to absolute paths - just clicked "Revert to Absolute Paths" in Actions → Preferences → Advanced → Files and Folders.
For the next collection, I changed the base directory to the corresponding directory. It then asked me to confirm NOT recognising existing attachments. Sure enough, the linked attachments were not found for any of the papers , clicking on an item asked me to "Locate..." - it worked after I did that.
Looking into the debug output, it seems to not have changed the path from the previous one. A repeat of this a few minutes back for a different collection resulted in Zotero looking for the file with the path missing one underscore.
Debug ID is D1422482236 . File in question is "Gangale et al_2013_Consumer engagement.pdf" - the folder where it actually resides is "\\Pyra[...]_Papers" (this is what I set in Base Directory), - the folder where it looked for it is "\\Pyra[...]_5th Jan 2016".
The collection I was last using - I was able to convert all the linked files to absolute paths - just clicked "Revert to Absolute Paths" in Actions → Preferences → Advanced → Files and Folders.
For the next collection, I changed the base directory to the corresponding directory. It then asked me to confirm NOT recognising existing attachments. Sure enough, the linked attachments were not found for any of the papers , clicking on an item asked me to "Locate..." - it worked after I did that.
Looking into the debug output, it seems to not have changed the path from the previous one. A repeat of this a few minutes back for a different collection resulted in Zotero looking for the file with the path missing one underscore.
Debug ID is D1422482236 . File in question is "Gangale et al_2013_Consumer engagement.pdf" - the folder where it actually resides is "\\Pyra[...]_Papers" (this is what I set in Base Directory), - the folder where it looked for it is "\\Pyra[...]_5th Jan 2016".
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I'd just fix the link filepaths using Zutilo:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/zutilo-utility-for-zotero/