Upgrade Storage"Detaching" attachments
Hi,
Years ago when I imported my Papers collection to Zotero, a lot of my entries were PDF files with no wrapper. When imported to Zotero (I forget now which method I used), these were given a "Parent Item" wrapper with the same name as the PDF.
Here's the problem: I want to use the PDF Metadata to fill in the parent item. BUT since the PDFs are already attached, I can't select that option. I know I can detach an attachment by dragging it out of the parent item, but since I have hundreds of these this doesn't seem like a feasible approach.
So is there a way to either:
(i) Bulk-detach attachments out of their parent item?
or
(ii) Fill in a parent item based on the metadata of an attached PDF?
Many thanks,
JLT
Years ago when I imported my Papers collection to Zotero, a lot of my entries were PDF files with no wrapper. When imported to Zotero (I forget now which method I used), these were given a "Parent Item" wrapper with the same name as the PDF.
Here's the problem: I want to use the PDF Metadata to fill in the parent item. BUT since the PDFs are already attached, I can't select that option. I know I can detach an attachment by dragging it out of the parent item, but since I have hundreds of these this doesn't seem like a feasible approach.
So is there a way to either:
(i) Bulk-detach attachments out of their parent item?
or
(ii) Fill in a parent item based on the metadata of an attached PDF?
Many thanks,
JLT
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adamsmithNo to those two questions. What I'd do is to use Zotfile (www.zotfile.com) to send all those PDFs to a new folder (using "send to tablet") and then drag them back to Zotero and retrieve metadata from them. You'd then just delete the originally created items.