Switching from linked PDFs to Zoteros own database
Hi,
I switched from Mendeley to Zotero a few months ago, and the switch went fine, all my were retained, etc., and all entries were added with links to PDFs in what used to be my Mendeley database.
However, I now want to be able to view these files on my personal laptop as well. Since linked files are not synced, I need to copy the linked PDFs to Zoteros own database somehow.
Unfortunately I cannot seem to find an option to do that easily.
Does anyone know a way to do this? I have about 900 entries in the database, so it needs to be a batch option of some sort.
Thanks in advance!
Piet
I switched from Mendeley to Zotero a few months ago, and the switch went fine, all my were retained, etc., and all entries were added with links to PDFs in what used to be my Mendeley database.
However, I now want to be able to view these files on my personal laptop as well. Since linked files are not synced, I need to copy the linked PDFs to Zoteros own database somehow.
Unfortunately I cannot seem to find an option to do that easily.
Does anyone know a way to do this? I have about 900 entries in the database, so it needs to be a batch option of some sort.
Thanks in advance!
Piet
Install, set preferences to store as Zotero attachments, then select all items --> manage attachments --> Rename attachments
That should convert linked items to Zotero stored files.
https://github.com/jlegewie/zotfile/issues/368
Any other suggestions? Otherwise I just have to wait for Zotfile to fix the problem...
@Swinkels Did you find a workaround yet? If so, please share it.
@dstillman If Zotfile batch conversion is broken, would this work: 1) export entire Zotero database including attachments as an RIS file; 2) completely erase ones database (how would you do that?); 3) Disable Zotfile management of attachments (how would you do that?) 4) import the RIS file into Zotero? I just this week switched to linked attachments managed by Zotfile, but if it’s not possible to easily get back to Zotero storage in the future (particularly now that an iOS app is likely in the pipeline), I would still have time to revert to a back up I made a couple days ago
I'm not sure when this will be fixed in ZotFile, but it probably makes sense for us to implement this in Zotero itself, probably with an option (unselected by default) to remove the original linked file after storing it. If you can wait a little while, I can let you know when that's available in a beta build.
ChangeLog for version 5.0.75 (October 8, 2019) includes:
Added “Convert Linked Files to Stored Files…” menu option. Available via File → Manage Attachments