Upgrade StorageChanging PDF storage location
Hi, rookie ICT user here.
Have changed institutions so moved PDF library from old OneDrive account to new one. I need to link my Zotero library to this new location- in Advanced Settings I changed the Linked Attachment Base Directory to my new OneDrive folder but understand this might only apply to new imports- when I try to open PDFs in the reader I'm still getting the 'attached file couldn't be found at the path' and lists Zotero storage pathway- I thought changing the Linked Base Directory to One Drive would correct this? I've installed ZotMoov but am not sure whether that can help. Have tried quitting and reopening Zotero. Thanks for any help, this feels basic but am confused.
Have changed institutions so moved PDF library from old OneDrive account to new one. I need to link my Zotero library to this new location- in Advanced Settings I changed the Linked Attachment Base Directory to my new OneDrive folder but understand this might only apply to new imports- when I try to open PDFs in the reader I'm still getting the 'attached file couldn't be found at the path' and lists Zotero storage pathway- I thought changing the Linked Base Directory to One Drive would correct this? I've installed ZotMoov but am not sure whether that can help. Have tried quitting and reopening Zotero. Thanks for any help, this feels basic but am confused.
1. the path Zotero lists in the error message - where it *thought* the file should be.
2. where that file actually is.
Can you give us those bits of information for one file ? And what your Linked Attachment Base Directory setting is.
Regarding what you said about the Linked Attachment Base Directory perhaps only applying for future files, that is not the case. It applies to all linked files in your database, now and in the future. When a LABD is set for the first time on any Zotero computer you use, all existing linked file paths in the database are changed, from explicit 'absolute' paths to 'relative' paths with a special placeholder prefix. When you then open a linked file, Zotero inserts the LABD in place of the placeholder prefix, to construct the path to find the file. The appropriate LABD needs to be set on each computer you use. Future linked files have their path stored in the same way.