Confusing: supra-folders do not contain the papers of sub-folders

rutyggi

If B is a sub-folder of A, it looks like A does not contain all the papers contained in B.

They act like two different folders it seem.

This is very confusing. Why is that?

DWL-SDCA

See, recursive collections:
https://www.zotero.org/support/collections_and_tags

edit: Scroll down a little bit to get there.

See Dan Stillman's correction, below. Getting what you want is easier than I thought.

dstillman

That documentation was outdated. This is simply a setting in the View menu now:

https://www.zotero.org/support/collections_and_tags#show_items_from_subcollections