Upgrade StorageFinding items without attachments
I am trying to identify items in my large Zotero library that do not currently have attachments. I found this thread in the forum (https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/25615/how-to-find-entries-without-a-pdf-attachment), but in Zotero 5, the option to search a saved search doesn't seem to exist anymore unless I'm missing something? Is there another way to do what I'm looking to do? Thanks!
- I found that running "Attachment File Type -- is --- PDF" against a saved search didn't work. (i.e. "Collection -- is -- Name_of_my_saved_search" AND "Attachment File Type -- is --- PDF"). It gave me all of the items in that saved search, which is obviously wrong.
- However, running it against a Subcollection appeared to work, though oddly, the item count was off by about a factor of five, perhaps because it was counting every Attachment and Note (?).
- NB when you do the above, you need to select 'Include parent and child items of matching items'.
- After that, the next step was to create a saved search combining:
"Attachment File Type -- is --- PDF" run against a Subcollection
AND Collection is -- Name_of_my_saved_search
- and then the mirror image of the above, a saved search with no PDF attachments
So now I can use the no-PDF-attachment saved search as a sort of to do list for finding PDFs.
"- I found that running "Attachment File Type -- is --- PDF" against a saved search didn't work. (i.e. "Collection -- is -- Name_of_my_saved_search" AND "Attachment File Type -- is --- PDF"). It gave me all of the items in that saved search, which is obviously wrong. "
Search 1:
[Attachment File Type] [is] [PDF]
[x] "Include parent and child items of matching items"
Search 2:
[Collection] [is not] [Search 1]
[x] Show only top-level items