Mac saving all script files and photos from webpage
We are using Zotero in a project with our students for the fifth year in a row. For the first time our students using Mac are having issues with numerous script files and photos (it looks like it's all files connected to the web page they have saved) being stored under "all files" every time they save a source. It's about 20 files per source, which means that their Macbooks are being filled with an enormous amount of files they don't need.
Does anyone have an idea of why this happens and how we can avoid it? It may look like it's connected to the browser extension button. Is there a setting in the new version (they all have the latest version) where we can turn this off?
Does anyone have an idea of why this happens and how we can avoid it? It may look like it's connected to the browser extension button. Is there a setting in the new version (they all have the latest version) where we can turn this off?
You can disable snapshot saving in the General pane of Zotero preferences. If you want to save snapshots, but don't want any Zotero files to show up in All My Files or to be indexed by Spotlight, you can add ~/Zotero to Spotlight's Privacy list in System Preferences.
Whenever I start using a fresh installation of Zotero, disabling snapshots is the first thing I do. I understand snapshots can be a handy feature, but I find it rather useless in the case of scientific literature, where I always greatly prefer to just have the PDF.