Cannot rename file after parent [Beta]
Hi,
I added a book chapter from Brill. Since the automatically downloaded pdf atachment is just called "Full Text PDF" I tried to right-click and automatically rename the PDF after its metadata. However in the Zotero Interface nothing happens and the name remains "Full Text PDF". The filename is correct when looking at the file through my file manager, though. I've also encountered the issue trying to rename other files.
I'm using 7.0.0-beta.23+fb5934563
Debug ID: D1234792423
I added a book chapter from Brill. Since the automatically downloaded pdf atachment is just called "Full Text PDF" I tried to right-click and automatically rename the PDF after its metadata. However in the Zotero Interface nothing happens and the name remains "Full Text PDF". The filename is correct when looking at the file through my file manager, though. I've also encountered the issue trying to rename other files.
I'm using 7.0.0-beta.23+fb5934563
Debug ID: D1234792423
Zotero has always renamed files saved from the web automatically, and if you've been running Rename File from Parent Metadata manually, you've been wasting your time. If you just save normally and look at the Filename field in the right-hand pane of the attachment, or right-click → Show File, you'll see that the file is named correctly without your doing anything.
What we changed in beta 23 is having a manual Rename File from Parent Metadata not change the attachment title needlessly if it doesn't already match the filename. The attachment title is meant to be different, and if anything it was a bug that it was changed unnecessarily before. Read this thread for more details.
The only issue after this change is that in the cases where Rename File from Parent Metadata is actually changing something, it's not immediately clear that that happened. We plan to add some sort of indicator for that. But again, if you're just saving normally, there's no reason to be running that manually unless you changed the parent metadata (and we plan to do automatic renaming on changes in a future version).
I don't find the distinction between filename and attachment title particularly intuitive and titles like "Full Text PDF" rather nondescript, but that might just be personal preference.