Link to stored copy inside "storage" folder
Hello,
If we consider English as the default language for my library, I sometimes have a reference in a foreign language. In that case, I consider the original language as the main reference (OV), with a stored copy of the file as attachment ("storage/XXXXX/attachment.pdf"). I duplicate this entry with the English translation (EV), with a link to the file "storage/XXXXX/attachment.pdf".
I am working with two computers, both with a local copy of all the attachments (for offline work). However, in order to keep all the links working, I had to set "linked attachment base directory" and "data directory location" the same, which is not recommended.
Is there any safe way to have 2 entries (OV/EV) sharing the same attachment without duplicating it?
If we consider English as the default language for my library, I sometimes have a reference in a foreign language. In that case, I consider the original language as the main reference (OV), with a stored copy of the file as attachment ("storage/XXXXX/attachment.pdf"). I duplicate this entry with the English translation (EV), with a link to the file "storage/XXXXX/attachment.pdf".
I am working with two computers, both with a local copy of all the attachments (for offline work). However, in order to keep all the links working, I had to set "linked attachment base directory" and "data directory location" the same, which is not recommended.
Is there any safe way to have 2 entries (OV/EV) sharing the same attachment without duplicating it?
This just isn't a common thing that people want to do — I can't recall anyone else ever asking about it — so there's not a particularly elegant solution here.
But I'm actually not sure I even know what you mean. If it's actually a reference for a foreign-language version of something, it wouldn't make sense to have the same PDF attached, and using a related item would seem like the appropriate solution. What exactly do mean by "reference in a foreign language"?
If you're dealing with multilingual sources, you may want to look into Juris-M, the third-party fork of Zotero that's designed for that purpose.