@darcyparks @jadoff I just pushed a new version with the fix (5.0.15). Let me know if that fixes the problem. Thanks @dstillman.

@Joscha @jadoff The new version fixes it for me. Thanks!

Dear Zotfile experts,
I am trying to migrate from the Zotero file structure to a custom file structure mirroring my library structure in Zotero using Zotfile. It happens that I have multiple files per Zotero entry e.g. multiple pdfs, xls, jpgs, etc. When Renaming/moving them to the new location all files get renamed and file names on the disk are differentiated by adding a number. In Zotero, however, the multiple and different file types all appear with the same same name and no possibility to differentiate foo1.pdf, foo2,pdf, foo.jpg, foo.xls etc.
3 related questions:

1.
Is there a possibility to add the file extension in the name (both in zotero and in the file name) and differentiate multiple pdf - at leas as foo1.pdf, foo2.pdf within zotero?

2.
Renaming does not work (always) for some files (generally jpgs but I although had some scanned pdfs for which it does not work). The Dialog "zotfile: Unnamed attachments" freezes/remains gray. This happens more often using the Zotfile renaming format but also when using the standard zotero renaming format.

3.
How can I automatically list or exclude entries with multiple attachments for manuell treatment?

Thank you all for your help.

@MikeDacre: You could try to suppress the warning messages by toggling the extensions.zotfile.tablet.showwarning preference in the Config Editor.
See here: https://github.com/jlegewie/zotfile/issues/417.

You could check the discussion here. Some similar issues might have been fixed recently, so make sure you're running the current Zotfile version (5.0.16).

@GabrielRobles: It seems that some characters with accents are properly extracted. Could you select the text in your pdf viewer, then copy and paste it to a text editor? If the pasted text remains of poor quality, it might be that the (hidden) text layer of your pdf is not correct. You might get better results by running OCR software on the pdf.

Maybe the Zotero OCR add-on can do this. I would test it first on a copy of the pdf. If you are using Windows, you could check if the PDF-XChange Editor and its OCR Language Extensions could be of help. A free version for academic use seems to be offered here, but I don't know if the language files are compatible with this version.

You can find some background on the "text layer" that I mentioned above here and here. For scanned documents, this is often a text that is made invisible and shown above the scanned picture. Even if your pdf is not a scanned document, it might contain invisible characters that are problematic here. It seems that you are getting the correct words and punctuation marks, but that there are unwanted characters in between words that are printed in bold font. As you already noted, bold text is normally not a problem for Zotfile. For an illustration of non-printable unicode characters see here.

Zotfile has a feature that allows replacing unicode characters, which might help with your issue. In the Config Editor, find the preference extensions.zotfile.pdfExtraction.replacements. If you right-click it, you can modify the value to set a replacement rule. For example, a single character replacement could be [{"regex":"ò", "replacement": "o"}] or equivalently [{"regex":"\\u00F2", "replacement": "o"}], see here. So if you could find the unicode value for the unwanted character, you could replace it with a space character.

Various ways of identifying the unicode characters on the clipboard are given here. This online tool might be useful:
https://www.babelstone.co.uk/Unicode/whatisit.html
(Paste your text and click the "Identify" button.)

You can recreate the collections manually or in the Zotfile settings window.

I am also having the same problem with @sdknij at page 60. The bug is reproduced when i follow the steps below:
1. I click X.pdf -> send to tablet (X.pdf is linked in google drive)
2. I annotate X.pdf on my ipad (via PDFViewer if that matters).
3. I click get from tablet, so i get X_annotated.pdf in zotero (annotations correctly imported).
4. When i click X_annotated.pdf --> send to tablet (to keep annotating it), the complete filepath becomes: some_folder/false (originally some_folder/X_annotated.pdf) and no file ends up in the tablet folder. also the link to X_annotated.pdf in zotero becomes corrupt as mentioned.

A lot of thanks to the developer for helping so many researchers!

version => 5.0.85, platform => MacIntel, oscpu => Intel Mac OS X 10.15, locale => en-US, appName => Zotero, appVersion => 5.0.85, extensions => ZotFile (5.0.16, extension), Zotero Storage Scanner (5.0.8, extension), Zotero LibreOffice Integration (5.0.22.SA.5.0.85, extension), Zotero Word for Mac Integration (5.0.26.SA.5.0.85, extension), Zotero Scholar Citations (2.0.4, extension, disabled)

@djhayman02: It's not that they're video files — it's that they're standalone attachments. Without a parent item, there's no metadata to use to rename the file. If you drag a PDF that Zotero can recognize, it will create a parent item automatically, but for PDFs it can't recognize and all other file types, you need to create a parent item. You can do that either by saving an item another recommended way (e.g., from the web, via Add Item by Identifier) and dragging the attachment onto it or, if all else fails, right-clicking, choosing Create Parent Item, and entering metadata manually.

Hi, Just to add to this I have also noticed the same behaviour with .ppt, and .xls files. When testing a .txt file, it worked the same as .pdf files.

Is anyone else experiencing the same problem?

Cheers
Dan

Amazing, thanks so much!

Thank you to the developers for all the hard work.

- For the renaming string, %a (or a new field wildcard) should only include authors, not editors. The instructions claim it does work this way, but it does instead include the editors no matter what.

Per the instructions:
"%a last names of authors (not editors etc) or inventors."
http://zotfile.com/#renaming-rules

This should leave off the editor name(s) and only include the author name(s).Thus if there are only editors, the file name will just be the name of the work itself, no creators at all. {%a|%e}, on the other hand, would still give either authors or editors, as usual.

Hello, everyone -

I would like all PDFs fo open in Acrobat. However: Extracted links (open-pdf) on my system are opening in Preview, rather than Acrobat.
This is a Mac running OS Mojave with all updates, with latest Zotero beta and latest Zotfile and Zutilo.

I have both the System default and Zotero's preference set to use Acrobat. Regular PDF attachments in Zotero do open properly in Acrobat.

I read elsewhere here to modify the hidden Config preference extensions.zotfile.pdfExtraction.openPdfMac

(Thread: https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/78695/zotfile-annotation-hyperlinks-opening-in-preview-mac-instead-of-default-pdf-reader/p1)

However, that config preference does not appear in the list. Many other options appear in extensions.zotfile.pedfExtraction, but nothing with "openPdfMac".

Any advice appreciated.

I could still use some help with how zotfile interacts with file storage. Am I doing something wrong or is there a bug? Mac OS

When I add a file to Zotero, zotfile nicely renames it and puts it in a human readable directory structure I have set up. under location of files. When I "send to tablet", it successfully copies it in the dropbox folder I'm using to sync.

But when I "get from tablet" is pulls the file into Zotero's structure with weird folder names instead of into the directory structure according to zotfile's rules. When I use "rename attachment" it moves it back to the structure I set up but loses _annotated from the copy of the PDF.