Thanks.
I get the following: "[JavaScript Error: "'PDF' must be a file in Zotero.Attachments.importFromFile()"]"

I have checked, and as far as I understand, the files are where they should be. Could files' names be a problem? All files names start with #

Here is the first entry:

TY - CHAP
A2 - N., Setter
AU - Damjanovic, D.
AU - Robert, G.
CY - Lausanne
L1 - internal-pdf://#1Damjanovic-1527590144/#1Damjanovic.pdf
N1 - 6
PB - N. Setter, EPFL
PY - 2002
SP - 353
ST - Piezoelectric hysteresis and nonlinearity in ferroelectric materials
T2 - Piezoelectric materials in Devices
TI - Piezoelectric hysteresis and nonlinearity in ferroelectric materials
UR - file://localhost/Users/dragandamjanovic/DraganData/DraganArchives/My%20archives/my%20papers%20ready%20to%20print/%231Damjanovic.pdf
ID - 1
ER -


UR above points to an old folder where I kept papers before EndNote existed. I do not understand why EndNote still points there when the paper is placed in:
/Users/dragandamjanovic/DraganData/EndNote Libraries/MyPapers9-Saved-Saved.Data/PDF/#1Damjanovic-1527590144

sorry about that -- and in what folder exatly are you savig the RIS file?

I am also having a problem importing attached PDFS from EndNote and not seeing any workable solutions in the forums. At some point EndNote starting storing each PDF in an individual folder within it's PDF folder and Zotero can't seem to cope. Any suggestions?

1. I confirm that this file exists at place indicated above
2. TextEdit cannot create .txt files. I use entry above and create txt file with Word.
3. I put this txt file into /Users/dragandamjanovic/DraganData/EndNote Libraries/MyPapers9-Saved-Saved.Data
4. As before, I get message:
"[JavaScript Application ] An error occurred while trying to import the selected file. Please ensure that the file is valid and try again"

OK, I've been able to reproduce this and track it down and have a provisional fix. The issue is indeed the # in the filepath.

@D-D -- we might need to think through some issues before implementing the fix, but you can pretty easily do this yourself:

1. Find the Zotero data directory https://www.zotero.org/support/zotero_data
2. Open the folder translators
3. Open the file RIS.js with a text editor (TextEdit should work, but make sure you use plain text mode)
4. Find this bit https://github.com/zotero/translators/blob/master/RIS.js#L1385
5. replace the line path: url, with path: encodeURIComponent(url),
6. save the file and try importing the RIS again. It should work now.

@dstillman -- I'm a bit clueless about file handling in mozilla, so would appreciate some advice. Currently, filepaths are treated as URIs and thus # is treated as the end of the URI rather than a regular character. We can handle this in the translators (as per my patch suggested above), but it seems like doing this upstream -- in translate_item.js might be better?

@rbowles -- as you can probably tell, this was a very specific issue. In most cases import of files from Endnote works as described here: https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/importing_records_from_endnote#exporting_your_library_from_endnote if you have problems importing files, please start a new thread and provide details.

Good day,
the procedure suggested above worked (changing the text on line 1385 in RIS.js file). Thank you. I can now import the library and associated pdf files.

@adamsmith: Issue created.