[Zotero 7 bug] "Rename File from Parent Metadata" fails to rename attachment in Zotero

bentyeh · 2024-09-12T07:06:31+00:00

Report ID: 688246774
Zotero version: 7.0.5
Operating system: MacOS Sonoma Version 14.6.1 (Apple M2 chip)

When I try to rename an item attachment (right click on the item attachment > "Rename File from Parent Metadata"), the actual file gets renamed on disk, but the new name does not show up in Zotero.

This screenshot shows an item and its attachment in Zotero in the background and a Finder window of the attachment on disk in the foreground. The file has been renamed on disk but not in Zotero. https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u9749393/c4zmq497h2471fe8kcp7.png

poettli · 2024-09-12T07:09:18+00:00

https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/attachment_title_vs_filename

bentyeh · 2024-09-12T07:21:35+00:00

Understood, thank you!

JefferyWang · 2024-09-12T21:13:28+00:00

This is more inconvenient. If I have more than one pdfs in one citation, how to differentiate them? PDF1 PDF 2?

adamsmith · 2024-09-12T21:21:24+00:00

you'd have to rename one of them manually either way.

JefferyWang · 2024-09-12T21:57:42+00:00

I just ran the code from Poettli's link to all my citations. So, all the pdfs with the name generated by zotero will be named "PDF". In one citation that has the main pdf which has the zotero generated title, and other pdfs with names I manually created remains unchange.

This is good. I still can easily identify them.