Migrated from Mendeley; keeping all my PDFs in the same place
Hi all, I recently migrated my Mendeley library to Zotero (thanks to whoever provided the detailed migration documentation!).
Now I'm finding a new challenge: all of the 1000+ PDFs attached to items I migrated are currently living in a folder on my desktop. But new PDFs for items I added after the migration are being saved to subfolders of ~/Zotero/storage/ .
How do I batch move the PDFs in my desktop folder to the Zotero storage directory, and automatically the attachment links within the Zotero library?
Any guidance appreciated :)
Now I'm finding a new challenge: all of the 1000+ PDFs attached to items I migrated are currently living in a folder on my desktop. But new PDFs for items I added after the migration are being saved to subfolders of ~/Zotero/storage/ .
How do I batch move the PDFs in my desktop folder to the Zotero storage directory, and automatically the attachment links within the Zotero library?
Any guidance appreciated :)
http://zotfile.com/
The ZotFile plugin can theoretically do this, but from other recent reports I believe that may not be working right now.
If you want to help test this out, you should temporarily disable auto-sync and make a backup of your Zotero data directory (and, if you use the "Delete original files after storing" option, your PDF directory) before trying it, and then closely review the converted files before turning syncing back on. Let us know if you run into any problems.