Help Required: my files turn into folders when trying to link attachments

MSAP
Hello,

My apologies if this issue is resolved elsewhere on the site, but I haven't been able to find an answer myself.

I am using a MacBook with OSX (10.7.1) Lion and Firefox (6.0.2) with Zotero (2.1.10).
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I am attempting to link three files, stored on my computer, to a document I created in Zotero.

The files include two BeeDoc Timeline 3D files (.btd2) and a Mindnode Pro file (.mindnode).

I have successfully linked these types of file to other documents in the past. However, when I go to add attachment/attach link to file and find the documents in the 'select a file' window, they now appears as folders containing a Quicklook Folder, a TimelineData.data file and a SpotlightData file. Attaching one of these presumably normally hidden files achieves nothing, and when I search for the timeline/mindnode files that I have previously attached to other Zotero Documents they have also turned into folders. PDFs and OpenOffice files are not affected.

Outside of Zotero these files appear normal.

I would really appreciate any advise...

Thanks,

Kate
  • dstillman
    Outside of Zotero these files appear normal.
    They're not, though. They're "packages", which are just folders with some pixie dust on them. (If you control-click on them in the Finder, you'll see "Show Package Contents" in the context menu.)
  • MSAP
    I know it is possible to expand packages, I've done that before.

    Regardless, I used to be able to attach these types of files in Zotero, but now they are expanded and I can't select them...
  • dstillman
    edited September 14, 2011
    Linking folders to Zotero isn't meant to be supported. If it worked before, that was a bug.

    (It could potentially be made to work, but it never did so by design, and OS X packages might still behave strangely.)
  • MSAP
    edited September 14, 2011
    Shame.

    Are they truly folders in that sense?

    They open as files for the programmes mentioned above. As far as usage is concerned they are documents.
  • dstillman
    Yes, they're folders. OS X just presents them as files.
  • MSAP
    Fair enough, nevermind. Thanks for your help.

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