ZotFile - Advanced PDF management for Zotero
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System: MacOS (10.13.2)
Zotero: 5.0.33
Zotfile: 5.0.6
Are there any better instructions for using User-defined Wildcards? The ones on the ZotFile website are a little sparse.
Ever since upgrading to Zotero 5 (I have 5.0.34 installed now, with Zotfile 5.0.6), I'm having an issue with subfolders when sending files to my tablet. I do not want subfolders for my tablet files, and I have that selected. When I send files to my tablet, though, they go to \%y subfolders. If I select any other option or try to define another subfolder structure, \%y is still added as a last layer of subfolder. Is this a bug, or do I need to set my preferences differently in the new zotfile?
It used to be that if I were working from my university's library site, selected an article with an attached pdf (e.g., on JSTOR), and clicked the Zotero article icon in my browser's toolbar, Zotero would download the metadata, create a bibliographic item in the Zotero database, attach the pdf, rename the pdf and ship it out to Zotfile's Custom Location file address (in my case, this is a NAS drive at home attached via WebDAV), and delete the pdf that was originally downloaded to my computer.
Now, Zotero is downloading the metadata, creating the bibliographic item, and attaching the pdf stored locally on my computer. To rename the document, ship it out to the NAS drive, and delete the local copy, one has to select Manage Attachments > Rename Attachments. This used to be done automatically, as part of scraping the item's metadata from the library database.
Is there a way to fix this?
When I select “get from tablet” the file disappears from my tablet but Zotfile does not create an annotated version as it used to (and the annotations are not extracted).
When I select “send to tablet” the filename changes to “false” and the file does not get sent to my tablet. I also see this error appear: "Attachments skipped because they are top-level items, screenshots or the file does not exist." And when I click on the link to the file in Zotero, I see the "File Not Found" error message. I then select “locate” and re-establish the link to the file, but this doesn’t solve the problem. It seems the file path becomes corrupted when I try to send to tablet.
I would really appreciate any ideas for how to fix this!
It works well when I download something from firefox. Zotfile will look for the last modified document in my download folder and attach this file. But if a friend give me a usb stick with plenty of pdfs, I have no way to attach them to my zotero entries.
How can I proceed in this case?
If they come on a USB, you get the metadata separately, and you want to use Zotfile to process them, there is no solution to get all of them into your library at once. You'd probably have to copy them one by one into the ZotFile watch folder, then right-click on the target item to tell ZotFile to look for the most recent PDF file added to that folder and process it.
I am wanting to access my Zotero library on my ipad pro so I it seems that Zotfile is what I need. However, Firefox will not allow me to install the add-on with a message 'Sarafi has prevented the installation of an unverified add-on' or something close to that. The more information talks about apps needing to be 'signed' by Firefox, somehow verified.
I do want to know that I can trust add-ons of course so sounds like a good idea. Is it possibly that Zotfile could work within this system?
Appreciate your help.
Is it a flaw in the software I'm not aware of, or is it something I do ? Thank you !
I've been using Zotfile for moving attachments (symlinks to pdf files) when items moved from collection to collection. Structure of my library in Zotero and on the filesystem are identical. So when I move an item to another collection I wanted to move the file on the filesystem as well. For that purpose I had "General Settings -> Location of Files" set to custom locations (my pdf library prefix under "~/Documents/Library") and the following checkbox "Use subfolder defined by "/%c".
I also enabled "preferences.zotfile.disable_renaming" in the hidden properties.
With this setup I could move an item to a new collection, right click on the attachment and let it be renamed by Zotfile effectively moving the linked file without any name changes.
With the last version of Zotfile and Zotero 5 I get the file moved but additionally renamed with the "%c". The path to the file get included into the filename.
Zotero renaming is disabled.
Any ideas?
Many thanks in advance!
Notably, zotero renaming seems to do the same thing.
I'm using linux zotero 5.0.25 with zotfile 5.0.7.
I'm 100% certain this never used to happen before, as I have been using this setup for a while. I look in my attachment folders there are quite a few that look like AUTHOR, YEAR_2, when there are duplicates, and I've been using zotfile the whole time to rename these files.
I suspect the move from firefox zotero to standalone may have been the point at which it changed.
Sorry if this is addressed somewhere else. I wasn't able to find anything.
Is always creating subfolders when sending to tablet the new expected behaviour of Zotfile?
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