Request: Save snapshots only if no other attachment
I have kept the Save Snapshots setting turned off as long as I've used Zotero because I never want to save a snapshot of things like scholarly journal article webpages (I just want the PDF). Would it be possible to have a setting where snapshots are not saved if there is another attachment file that exists (ideally, whether or not it's available -- I still don't want to save the publisher webpage even if I don't have access to the PDF at save time), but to save one otherwise (eg, blog posts, newspaper articles, etc)?
If there’s agreement on this, I can open a tracking ticket for this, and people can identify translators that need to be updated (or, I guess, we can just grep for translators that save both).
I do agree with the general sentiment and I think snapshots of abstract pages are indeed useless
Automatically take snapshots when creating items from web pages
in Settings-File handling. However, if I deactivate it, all HTML snapshots will be prevented from attaching to the current item when saving a regular item from the browser using the Zotero connector. This is unreasonable for general web projects.Could we consider adding a sub-checkbox under the above checkbox to choose whether the HTML snapshot will be attached automatically from the Journal web, e.g. ScienceDirect? PDF/Epub attachments may be preferential for users over HTML snapshots.