41598628 (PDF Issues)

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My issue: I downloaded several PDF's for a research project, so they're local. They open in my browser which has the Zotero extension (I use Chrome as my browser), but I cannot save them to the Zotero app (also local). Perhaps they are old and don't have the metadata necessary?
The Zotero extension appears to work for other sites, just not my local PDFs.
  • dstillman Zotero Team
    edited 3 days ago
    You can't save file:// URLs to Zotero (and you should get a clear message about that) — the extension doesn't have access to run on those. If the files are already on disk, you can just drag them into Zotero.
  • Thank you! I don't know why that didn't occur to me (as a CS major in grad school...).
    Least I learned something new!
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