Hey dstillman - thanks for the super quick feedback - much appreciated.

Sorry, I was not aware of the difference. When I select Tools > Manage Attachments > Convert Linked Files to Stored Files … I am asked if I want to delete original files after storing.

I assume if I want to go WebDAV, "yes" is the correct answer to that question?

Ok proceeded with the action and ticked checkbox to delete original files. Now all files are available on mobile.

I can't express how nice it is seeing your work progress and Zotero really becoming usable. The improvements of the past months are huge - great work.

Zotero saves stored files by default. If you're getting linked files, you likely still have ZotFile installed and configured to convert new files to linked files.

There might be some confusion here.

1) Zotero renames files based on parent item metadata ("[Creator] - [Year] - [Title]") by default.

2) Make sure you've read through Stored Files and Linked Files to understand how the ways that stored files can be used. For local usage, there's not much downside to using stored files, and a lot of upside, unless you're really committed to manually browsing through filesystem folders instead of just typing a name in a search bar or clicking on a collection or tag.

3) I don't know what you mean by "I would prefer this in a dedicated zotero folder". .zip and .prop files are just on WebDAV, not your computer, and they're in a dedicated folder on the WebDAV server. The point of using Zotero file syncing is that you can access the files from any Zotero app on any device (e.g., your computer and the iOS app). Unless you really need to access files directly from your WebDAV server outside of Zotero, the contents of that folder shouldn't make a difference.

For my WebDAV setup I use URL: https cloud.provider.org/remote.php/dav/files and zotero adds "/zotero/ which I cannot edit. This results in all files zotero creates ending up in the top level.

Not sure what you mean by this. The whole point of the hard-coded '/zotero/' is that it ensures the files end up in a 'zotero' subfolder on your WebDAV server. If that's not happening, it's a bug in your WebDAV server.

The hard-coded “zotero” is appended to the path, and it won’t let you add a second one because having two “zotero” folders next to each other would generally just be a mistake.

This doesn’t have anything to do with the username itself, but if you’re saying 1) your WebDAV account is “zotero” (which I’m not sure why you would do) and 2) your WebDAV server requires the username to be part of the path (which isn’t standard) then you’d have to add an extra folder after the first “zotero” if you don’t want the files at the top level.

The whole point here, as I understood it, was that you need to use "remote.php/dav/files/zotero" to reach the top level of your WebDAV files, based on the username you chose. So then if you want to use a subfolder, given that Zotero enforces a single trailing "zotero", you would need to use "remote.php/dav/files/zotero/[some other folder name, like 'bib']/zotero". That's not what you entered.

In any case, there's no problem with Zotero here. It uses the entered path, with "/zotero" at the end. It's up to you to know what URL you need to use with your WebDAV server. If you're having trouble setting up a WebDAV server, use Zotero Storage, which just works. I'm afraid we can't help further here.