Make a pdf a "parent" item (Linux specific?)

adamsmith
I'm pretty sure I used to be able to do this, but it's not working now:

I have a couple of snapshots of pdfs - i.e. a meaningless parent item with an attached pdf.
I would like to retrieve metadata for those and would like to follow noksagt's advice
here: http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/6685/pdf-metadata/
to "move them from their parent webpage entry so that they are top-level items instead of attachments".

Alas - no matter where I drag them - between items in the center panel, to folders on the left panel, to the end of the list of items in the center panel - I cannot get the pdf to turn into a stand-alone or parent item.

Is there another way?
Is this Linux specific?
Is this a new issue or is that part of the whole range of Linux d&d issues?

(ubuntu 9.04, FF 3.0.10, Zt 2.0b3
  • noksagt
    I can replicate this on that same platform & I believe it is a new issue with 2.0 (Linux is my primary platform & I think that I offered the linked advice after trying it in Linux). Some D&D Linux issues were peculiar to dragging from/to the filesystem, but I know there are additional in-Firefox issues (both platform-specific and non-platform-specific).
  • adamsmith
    I would have preferred being stupid :-(
    Any suggestions for workable workarounds?
  • noksagt
    Any suggestions for workable workarounds?
    Not good ones, I'm afraid. I would think that you'd have to use the "store copy of file..." function a whole lot.

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