Zotero creating items in storage not visible in macOS Finder. Thoughts?

richlyon
As it says.

I want to locate the PDFs in the local file system so I can fix the titles in the metadata. In the storage directory created by Zotero's sync function, there are directories that are visible in the terminal, but not visible in Finder. I can search for and locate their content in Spotlight. But as soon as I navigate "back up" the path, the folder vanishes.

Has anyone experienced this, and/or have any idea what's going on? I can't see any difference in permissions between the visible and invisible items. (macOS 14.4 / Apple M2 Pro).

Thanks.

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  • poettli
    Different sorting rules

    Try ls -p | \
    awk -F. '{ if ($0 ~ /\/$/ ) { print "!",$0 } else if ( NF == 1 ) { print "!!",$0 } else { print $NF,$0 } }' | sort -k 1,1 -k 2,2V | \
    cut -d' ' -f2-
    and look at the output (source)
  • dstillman Zotero Team
    edited March 13, 2024
    @richlyon: What @poettli says, but what do you mean by "I want to locate the PDFs in the local file system so I can fix the titles in the metadata"?
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