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• That seems to have done the trick. Thanks so much!!

  in Can't automatically find PDFs but can add them manually from Zotero Storage Comment by hoptman yesterday at 6:24pm
• PS. I gather I can leave the Zotero/storage subdirectories that are already visible within the App.

  in Can't automatically find PDFs but can add them manually from Zotero Storage Comment by hoptman yesterday at 6:09pm
• Thanks. I see all the files in the Zotero Storage directory. Should I delete them and recopy them?

  in Can't automatically find PDFs but can add them manually from Zotero Storage Comment by hoptman yesterday at 6:07pm
• And here are pictures of the Zotero Storage and individual PDF subdirectories. https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u1095346/0zljswpes95ig4xlo9ym.png https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u1095346/4py20bowi2fcle1c7frj.png

  in Can't automatically find PDFs but can add them manually from Zotero Storage Comment by hoptman yesterday at 5:59pm
• Hi dstillman, I can see only about 1,576 of the pdfs within the Zotero app. Most of these I have added manually (by dragging and dropping) in the past day because when I tried to read the directory without doing that, I would see very few reference…

  in Can't automatically find PDFs but can add them manually from Zotero Storage Comment by hoptman yesterday at 3:44pm
• So the steps are: 1) open Zotero desktop app (Windows 11) 2) look for pdfs within my default library 3) see only a fraction of them within Zotero library 4) go into each 8-character directory name in Windows explorer 5) drag pdf into Zotero (which …

  in Can't automatically find PDFs but can add them manually from Zotero Storage Comment by hoptman yesterday at 3:11pm