So many duplicated attachments created by merging duplicated reference
I tried Zotero on Mac and love it very much, then decide to abandon Endnote and continue Zotero on CentOS. Following instructions (https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/importing_records_from_endnote), I spend one day to select and merge the duplicated references from Endnote by click and click like a robot... After that I downloaded ZotFile and planned to rename them all. Then... I found there are so many duplicated attachments created by merging...why does not Zotero keep only one attachment I truly need...I was planning to sync these references to net disk tonight. But so tired, what should I do next? Any hero?
~/Zotero> jdupes --summarize --recurse storage
Scanning: 43308 files, 1099 items (in 1 specified)
34096 duplicate files (in 2467 sets), occupying 401 MB
Most of those duplicates are probably not pdf files. But the ones taking up the bulk of the wasted space are.
jdupes is fast, partly because it has smart heuristics, taking advantage of file systems. But just a simple (file size check then) hash would be quick and easy. Then maybe have options for creating symlinks prompts for which one to keep or default policy.
I've frequently donated both money and developer time to OSS projects. But it's practices like this that give me a little pause. It should be pretty trivial for Zotero to know when it has needless redunancy in it's artifacts.
I don't see this working in the latest version (6.0.9).
Can you point me to the merge commit?
Thanks