ZotFile - Advanced PDF management for Zotero
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Zotero version: 4.0.29.15
Firefox: 52.0.2 (64-bit)
Could the problem be linked with the fact that I have always used Zotero Standalone until now (with Chrome), and that there is a problem since I changed, for instance on the repository?
Sorry for disturbing you for nothing, I will now discover Zotfile!
could it be related to using Dropbox for my storage directory? to repeat, the path is
Users\bensefth\Dropbox\zotero\library, with %c entered as the subfolder definition. So, instead of (for e.g.) Dropbox\zotero\library\masters\hegel they're being saved in Dropbox\zotero\library\undefined\masters\hegel, etc.
I did see something upon installation of Z5 warning against using Dropbox - however for me there's no real alternative in terms of having my attached documents available on multiple computers. tho I have also been getting strange behaviour on both the PC and Mac where the "Conflict resolution" screen flashes up (and then immediately disappears) a few times whenever I add a new file on either machine, and I had wondered if this had anything to do with using Dropbox, which obviously syncs itself independently of Zotero as well...
as for why the author/editor issue can't be replicated, that remains an absolute mystery to me, but is of far lesser importance than this problem.
thanks again @bwiernik really appreciate your help
Do you mean Zotero's or Dropbox's conflict resolution window?
I have now moved the Data Directory location back to the default, i.e. my laptop hard drive - I understand that it will still work on different machines via Zotero's own online sync. I also moved the "Linked Attachment Base Directory", which had also been set as Dropbox, to the hard drive. Tho my understanding is that this isn't particularly relevant to me, as I rename/refile everything via Zotfile - to the "library" folder and %c-defined subfolders (preceded by the mysterious "undefined") on Dropbox.
I have also updated to 5.0-beta.182+d472752 on the Mac (running Sierra 10.12.2). Not currently able to change the settings on the PC but the computer should be asleep, so not syncing.
And yes the conflict resolution window is Zotero's - it flashes up and immediately disappears. It's still doing this after changing the database location and the update.
I frequently use HTML formatting in title fields, especially around things like book titles in article titles to italicize them. Zotfile handles this by replacing
<i>Word</i>
withiWord-i
, which is fine, but it would be more elegant to drop the tag and its contents entirely.So my suggestion is to add a checkbox option such as "Ignore HTML tags" to the Zotfile preferences, which would instruct Zotfile to simply strip away anything between angle brackets.
I was hoping someone could help me. Essentially Zotfile is extracting incorrect annotations.
I am using windows and the firefox zotero version. I can annotate PDFs fine and these are saved appropriately in the child file in zotero.
Zotfile seems to extract the annotations but they are all incorrect and not what I have highlighted at all.
Incidentally I am using a Surface Pro 4 with surface pen to highlight on windows 10. I don't know if that should make a difference.
Thanks in advance for the help.
I am annotating with Adobe Acrobat reader DC. I'm pretty sure it's the latest version.
Any thoughts on what the problem could be?
It sound kind of unclear, its hard to explain but lets say I have a book titled: Bob Goes to the Store in my collection, within that book (RIS citation file) I have in it a PDF and the yellow sticky note indicator file for extracted annotations. The PDF attached to that book item when double clicked opens up in Adobe Acrobat (as it should) but when I go click on my yellow sticky note heading (my extracted annotations) and click on the hyperlinked part next to my quote [Ex. "Bob said he went to buy cat food..." (Lee2016:3)] The hyperlinked part is opening up to the highlighted page in the Preview application for some odd reason despite the fact that the linked PDF opens in Adobe Acrobat.
Any and all help is appreciated, thanks!
Hi guys
I'm using Windows 10 and the Drawboard universal app. When I go into annotations that Zotfile has created, the link opens up a blank white page. It should open Drawboard. When I open PDFs normally in Zotero, they open in Drawboard, so it seems like the default viewer is set okay. In the about:config settings, the zotfile viewer is set to "default". I haven't changed it to the Drawboard exe file because for some reason the exe doesn't work when you run it as a standalone file.
Has anyone else got this working or is it just a limitation of Drawboard?
Thanks
I have Zotfile set up with its tablet folder on Dropbox, and this has worked well for a few years now. Today I wanted to send some new stuff to the tablet, and found that it worked for some items and not for others. All of the items in question are present on the PC's local drive, but with some of them clicking "Send to tablet" does nothing.
I realise that this is almost certainly too vague to help from, but can anybody tell me what other information might be useful? I'm at a bit of a loss as to how to diagnose!
Thanks
The extensionless files still showed with PDF icons in Zotero, and would still open when double-clicked (but via an Open With dialog), but I'm guessing Zotfile simply couldn't see a PDF file attached to that item and so did nothing.
I've now deleted my user wildcard, so it's just {} again, and still nothing happens if I have Zotfile set to use my format for renaming.
(The problem I'm trying to solve is having tags in the title, as in "\<\i\>Italicized Title\<\/i\>". Zotero keeps the "i", though it drops the angle brackets, and I thought I would handle it with Zotfile. Other solutions welcome.)
I have a question, I cannot really understand what the Attach New Files to Zotero Items function is, and how is supposed to be used. I have read and reread the description but I do not understand if it is automatic, if it is user triggered, and how does it actually work.
I would appreciate if you could explain this.
Is this correct? If so, how do I get