Additional ways to extract attachments from Zotero library

myurkin

From time to time I need to extract PDF attachments from my library to give them to a colleague (either copy to a flash drive or send by e-mail). I use Zotero on Windows. As I understand, now the only option is to drag-and-drop attachment to any open explorer window. I propose to make additionally:
1) Ctrl-C functionality. Clicking this (or some other combination) on an attachment should copy the attachment file. Then I can first open any window and then paste the file (this way seems more intuitive than first open a window and then drag-and-drop).
2) Some of the file context menu options, in particular, sending attachments by a default e-mail client. Probably this can be added to the right-click context menu for attachments.

noksagt

You can drag-drop to your email client. See the threads I reference in:
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/6607/email-or-print-attachments-directly-from-zotero/

myurkin

Thanks for the link. Although I am aware of all the mentioned options, the issue is now well explained.

ben58

There are many ways to mail PDFs - but if you colleagues also use Zotero, why not send PDFs together their bibliographic data?

Select the items you want to share, right-click and select "Export selected items...", then use "Zotero RDF" as the format and "export files" as an option. Then zip the folder produced (all PDFs are in the subfolder "files") and send it to the recipient.