Hi @tim820 , if neither Zotmoov nor Attanger offers a "send to tablet" feature, is there any other plugin or method currently in Zotero 7 for me to easily send a given PDF/file to a Dropbox folder that I can access on my iPad, and then click to easily "retrieve" with its annotations, once I finish reading it? Or this is just something that died with Zotfile not being supported in Z7?
Edit: OK I've added the Zotmoov plugin, and see that I can select a file and "Move to Selected Directory", which is useful - but is there any way to "retrieve" that file document once I've finished reading it and it gets added back to the right location within my Zotero library, and adds a note of the annotations I made on the document? This was a wonderful feature of Zotfile, it's a pity it's not replicated here.

@samanthaculp Zotmoov's "Move to Selected Directory" is just the equivalent of Zotfile's right-click Rename&Move (which moves a PDF to Zotfile's Custom Location folder). Zotmoov's "Directory To Move Files to" (same as Custom Location folder) is also used when PDFs are downloaded by the Zotero web connector.

Those PDF files were saved by Zotfile (before Zotero v7) as *linked* attachment files (which do not work with Groups, or the online web library, or the Zotero mobile apps) - Zotmoov annd Attanger do the same. That folder is typically a cloud-mirrored folder, like Dropbox, Google Drive, or Onedrive.
https://www.zotero.org/support/attaching_files#linked_files

So of course if your cloud folder is accessible on your mobile device, you can open a linked PDF file stored there into any *other* PDF reader on you mobile device, and annotate it (you just can't load a linked PDF into the Zotero mobile app). You would *not* see any annotations that have already been added within Zotero, as they are not embedded in PDFs (unless you exported them to the PDF). Then, back in Zotero on your computer, you would see the new annotations you added on you device (as 'locked' annotations), and you could import them into Zotero if you wish.

The other way I can see of doing a manual version of Zotfiles' "Send To Tablet" for linked files - but which allows you to use the Zotero mobile app - would be to temporarily convert linked PDFs you want to work with on your mobile device to Zotero's standard *stored* files. You could have a collection named _Tablet_Items for example, to keep track of PDFs for use on your mobile device. You would keep in that collection any items whose PDFs you wished to work with in the Zotero mobile app (they would of course also remain in any other collections to which they belong). All items in that collection would be maintained as stored files (ie under Zotero\storage), using Zotero desktop's Tools\Manage Attachments\Convert Linked Files to Stored Files, for as long as you need to use them on your mobile device. You would have Zotero File syncing turned ON. So - as long as you are *under* your online file storage quota - Zotero would make those PDFs available in the online web library and also in the Zotero mobile app. When you finish working with a PDF, you would use zotmoov or attanger (right-click menu) to move it back to its linked file folder location. You would then remove the item from the _Tablet_Items collection.

I've never used the Zotero iOS apps (for either iPhone or iPad) because it's always been buggy and crashes often

That's…not a normal thing that people report. If you're having trouble with something, you should actually report it here so we can fix it. You've never posted here with any problems about the iOS app.

I don't know the last time you tried the app, but I would strongly recommend you try it again.

@tim820, I implemented zotmoov as you described but is there a way to pull documents into zotero, rather than just manually copying/pasting? Maybe it's really obvious and I just don't know, but I'd also been using 'get from tablet' for this function.

Hello everybody,
I used to use Zotfile to create an attachment file in Onedrive. Now I cannot use it as zotfile not available anymore. From our recommendations, ZotMoov also seems a good option. But my problem is
if I download Zootmoov will I need to rearrange all the files one by one or
will it automatically bring the same directory?

also when Zotfile will be available again?

So, I used to use Zotfile with Zotero 6. Now, with Zotero 7, I am planning to use just the Zotero database.

Do I need to re-link the files back to the original Zotero storage so that I can access them on iOS and the website? If so, how do I do that?

thanks @tim820 that is VERY clear. Do you know if I use a webDAV storage I will also be able to access the files in iOS?

@Fontanapink webDAV ...

Does work with the iOS app.
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/112490/ios-with-webdav

Does not work with the web library.
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/111546/will-the-web-library-support-webdav

Will work with the Android app before v1.0 is released.
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/comment/451980/#Comment_451980

Does not support Groups.
https://www.zotero.org/support/sync#webdav

@nes34 what does the error message say ?

Does it tell you the exact path to where it thinks that file should be ? That is often the clue to solving the problem (along with where that particular file actually is located on that computer). In any case you need that information.

So it doesn't give you an exact path location where it can't find the linked PDF file ? In that case it's possible that you may have set a Linked Attachment Base Directory on one computer but not all computers. You presumably know where the linked PDF *actually* is on each computer.

Did you have everything working correctly under Zotero 6 (with Zotfile) for the exact PDF file(s) that is not being found now ?

If it was working under Zotero 6, there should never be a need to re-link any files as long as the actual locations of those linked files that worked with Zotero 6 is the same as their location now with Zotero 7. Those linked locations were stored in Zotero's database at the time those files were added. You could have removed Zotfile or Zotmoov, and Zotero would still find those files - that does not require any plugin to be present.

If you have changed any of those linked file locations, it's possible that your problem is now more complicated.

But the gist if the issue will be where Zotero *thinks* a linked file is (either its original explicit-path location stored in the Zotero database, or the LABD location set on that computer) and then - because it can't find that file - the location where that file is actually located on that computer.

Take a single PDF that Zotero can't find and write those locations down for each computer. Including the LABD set on each computer (if any). Post them here if you can't figure out the solution.

@JuanAbasolo that respository is an old copy of an earlier version of the Attanger code. It was stored during a naming dispute regarding the use of the Zotero name, when the developer's github disappeared. There is nothing there to install. The developer's site eventually re-appeared with the new Attanger name.

Attanger or Zotmoov are the current plugins that reproduce most of Zotfile's functionality in Zotero v7.
https://github.com/wileyyugioh/zotmoov
https://github.com/MuiseDestiny/zotero-attanger

Thank you so much @tim820 . I'm going to try the first one, which is a little easier for me to understand. but first I have to make the backup in question

People that would like to have "send to tablet" feature and "get from tablet" Zotfile feature implemented, please visit
https://github.com/wileyyugioh/zotmoov/issues/44#issuecomment-2337502061 where I made a feature request, authors seem to be listing.