Zotero 7 beta: Space in filename between the name and the extension

dstillman Zotero Team
This discussion was created from comments split from: Available for beta testing: Zotero, redesigned.
  • vezione
    It's faster and looks better. ++
    I am seeing a strange issue with renaming. There is always a space between the name and the extension. eg "iamafilename .pdf"
  • dstillman Zotero Team
    edited February 12, 2024
    Did you customize the renaming format? Is there a space at the end? We should probably have that trim leading and trailing spaces automatically, but if you leave a space there, it will currently enter it, as you can see in the preview below the text box.
  • vezione
    edited February 12, 2024
    I have tried playing around with the string and have gone through many different versions. I have to think that it's something I'm doing but I can't put my finger on it. Here is what the string is currently:

    {{ firstCreator suffix=" - " }}{{ year suffix=" - " }}{{ title truncate="75" case="title" }}

    At first, I thought it might have been the truncation ending on a space, but I've tried many iterations of the truncation. I'm curious though, for long titles where a truncate value isn't expressed, the file name will be maxed out anyway, right?

  • dstillman Zotero Team
    edited February 12, 2024
    Right, but is there a trailing space/newline character at the end of that in the text box? If you see a space before ".pdf" in the preview line at the bottmo, you just need to delete all whitespace after your format string and it should go away.

    Again, we'll fix this for a future version, but that's almost certainly the issue.
  • vezione
    Oh, I see what you're saying. And yes, that is the issue. I didn't even realize it was there!
  • vancealexander
    This is my favoured no-space naming convention: mainAuthor-Year-JournalName.pdf

    Zotero syntax:

    {{ firstCreator citeable replaceFrom=" et al." replaceTo="" }}-{{ year }}-{{publicationTitle citeable replaceFrom=" " replaceTo=""}}
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