Zoffile "Get from Tablet" bug?
I sent 8 files to my table for reading and made annotations. Today I got them back from tablet. Some imported back fine with annotations as well. Some did not import annotations and some weird bug occurred where it can't find the file. This is worrying for me as the files with annotations get deleted in dropbox, and the annotated file not the annotations are there.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/fka0o95r0qye79v/GetfromTablet.PNG?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/fka0o95r0qye79v/GetfromTablet.PNG?dl=0
Press the "Locate..." button and check if you find a pdf file in the 'MC9LAEVG' folder. If so, select it and click "Open". Then try to open the file in Zotero.
As in your case, the issues I'm experiencing occur with stored files. There's a separate folder for each pdf file, 'MC9LAEVG' in your example. So the issue has nothing to do with a naming conflict. In some cases, a related issue might occur when the pdf file is opened in some viewer, which prevents a renaming operation on the file system. But this wouldn't explain the issues when importing new items from a journal website. So there seems to be some timing problem that occurs only occasionally. Network speed or system load might be factors that are relevant. Luckily, this is not critical, since the file is already in the proper folder and using the "Locate..." dialog solves the problem.
A related issue on github is: https://github.com/jlegewie/zotfile/issues/463. There, it's reported that the issue appears regardless of whether Zotero or Zotfile renames the file. I don't know whether the issue can actually be reproduced with Zotfile disabled. I'm using Zotfile to rename files, and the issue doesn't occur frequently. Properly identifying the issue might require heavy testing or an in-depth look at the code.