ZotFile - Advanced PDF management for Zotero
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What do you think of the idea of supporting subfolder names based on collection names?
@katonag: A new version (1.5.3) is waiting for the Mozilla review. This one supports the renaming of individual attachments.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/zotfile/
(the plugin should update automatically as soon as Mozilla approves it if you have already installed it)
New 1.5.x features:
- batch processing of existing attachments (renames and moves all attachments of selected items according to Zofile rules)
- allows the user to organize files into subfolders using zotero metadata
- renaming of individual attachments
- bug related to multiple zotero windows resolved
- The zotfile icon was replaced by two right-click menu items
- Support for Firefox 4 and Zotero 2.1 (including support of zotero as a tab)
Great plugin - I'm using it for almost 2 years now and it made my life much easier.
Unfortunately with the automatic update to 1.5.1 on windowsXP and Zotero 2.0.9 the Zotfile button disappeared and the right click menu options, although there, do nothing.
I know at least one of my friend who's having the same issue, which is unfortunate since stayed with Zotero 2.0.9 for the stability and didn't initiate the ZotFile update but was encouraged to do so, and now...
just to clarify, you see the two menu items as shown in the screenshot but nothing happens when you use either of them? ('Attach New File' should have the same functionality as the button and 'Rename Existing Att.' should only do something if there are attached items)
Can you use the error console to see whether any errors occur. Just go to Tools->Error Console, select the Errors pane and click clear. Use zotfile afterwards and see whether anything comes up. Not sure whether that's the same in FF 3.X
Best.
I've checked it again from my home PC (same configuration), again the paper-clip button is gone but this time the "Attach new file" menu entry do the job.
I think I know why wasn't it working yesterday - the destination dir was probably unmounted so it wasn't to the ZotFile.
Rotemhl
Joscha
New 1.5.x features:
- batch processing of existing attachments (renames and moves all attachments of selected items according to Zofile rules)
- allows the user to organize files into subfolders using zotero metadata
- renaming of individual attachments
- bug related to multiple zotero windows resolved
- The zotfile icon was replaced by two right-click menu items
- Support for Firefox 4 and Zotero 2.1 (including support of zotero as a tab)
I've been using Zotfile for the last weeks, to automatically rename PDFs to something useful (using metadata). Thanks Joscha for developing this great time-saving tool.
I'm wondering: is it possible to define your own abbreviations of journal names?
Cheers,
Joao
Best.
Manually changing the 'Journal Abbr' field works, but doing that for each entry is definitely not the best way to do it.
It does seem that there is some default Journal abbreviation list, taken from somewhere. Is it possible to edit that?
I guess this might be more complicated than what I initially thought :(
- Bug fix: 'Attach New File' now works with group libraries (always imports files because linked attachments do not exist in group libraries)
- Bug fix: double zotfile menu entries removed (for zotero 2.1)
I've just upgraded zotfile and moved to Firefox 4. The change in responsiveness is quite notable. Things are speedy now. One glitch: using Zotfile in FF4 moves, renames and attaches the file wonderfully. But it closes the Zotero pane. Upon re-opening zotero, the reference that has just been modified is not selected.
Thanks for your work on zotfile, the sine qua non of my zotero workflow.
The tool is here: http://www.dewmill.com/zotero/
JonEP, I can not reproduce your problem and was going to see whether someone else reports the same issue so that I might be able to pin it down. Do you have the same issue for 'Attach new ..' and 'Rename Ex...'?
Also, to which update are you referring? At https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/zotfile/versions/ you can access old version but only those with 1.5.x. Do you have the same problem for all these versions?
Well, now I can't reproduce this... I will say that zotfile does take a while to process the file move and rename -- maybe 15 seconds.
I'm using 1.5.7 on Zotero 2.1.2
Thanks and sorry for the trouble.
I upgraded recently to Firefox 5 beta. Using the zotero branch I got Zotero working. But Firefox 5 beta has also deaktivated the zotfile plugin, due to incompatiblity. I use zotfile every day.
Is it possible to make the zotfile plugin compatible to firefox5 beta (in the near future)?
If not, I downgrade to Firefox 4 (That's not a problem for me).
1) download the .xpi file
2) rename it to .zip and unpack
3) open the file 'install.rdf'
4) Change this line from
em:maxVersion="4.0.*" />
to
em:maxVersion="5.0.*" />
5) repack the the stuff (chrome and defaults folder, chrome.manifest and install.rdf
6) rename the file to .xpi file
7) install it (just drop the file on firefox)
Let me know if that works so that I can make the change in the next official release. If you are having problems doing this, I can create a new test version...
Best.
I tried it the way you have described. But after installing it (that works) I don't get the zotfile special menu selection for attaching or renaming of attachments (as I got before).
SiGi