Linked attachment base directory not finding all attachments
I'm trying to set the relative path for my linked file attachments in my Zotero library but when I choose the base directory containing my files I get the message "333 existing attachments were found within the new base directory." when it should by finding over 1200 attachments.
If necessary, you can use the third-party Zutilo plugin to adjust the path, but that shouldn't be necessary if you've used the base directory setting properly. The most likely possibility is that it isn't or wasn't set properly on one or more of the computers where you save files, and so some attachments are still set to absolute paths.
Are you saying that some files — the ones that won't open on this computer, presumably — are set to absolute paths that are within the base directory on the other computer? I'm not sure why that would happen (were you using ZotFile?) but if that's the case, you can either use Zutilo to batch-change the paths to be correct for this computer and then set the base directory to make them relative or, on the computer where they can be opened, clear and re-set the base directory, which should collect all the files below the base directory and convert them to relative paths. Either way, once they're relative paths and the base directory is set correctly on both computers, you'll be able to open them in both locations.
Changing the attachment paths to relative paths using Zutilo is working to make the files accessible on both computers, but I can't change all paths at once.
EDIT: If I select multiple entries and try to change their paths together, only some will be changed.
If that's what you're doing, can you provide a Debug ID that shows opening a file that's still set to the absolute path followed by re-setting the base directory such that the file is left as an absolute path?