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• I got the same error, but I added the encoding in the second line and it works. Thank you both! Also for helping me to break the psychological barrier “oh no, coding is hard to start”. Now I want to experiment more. :)

  in Importing files with structured filenames: "title @author $year.pdf" Comment by sypianski May 6, 2021
• m = re.match(r'^(.+?)@(.+?)\®(.+?).pdf$', os.path.basename(pdf))

  in Importing files with structured filenames: "title @author $year.pdf" Comment by sypianski May 6, 2021
• Thank you, it works! Except that... actually I have "®" not "$" in my filenames. So I replaced it accordingly in your regex and I get this: SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xc2' in file /Users/jakub/Downloads/ris.py on line 11, but no encoding d…

  in Importing files with structured filenames: "title @author $year.pdf" Comment by sypianski May 6, 2021
• Thank you! macOS Big Sur. But you can also redirect me somewhere, I don’t want to steal your time. I think I can adapt the script, I'm just not sure how to execute it.

  in Importing files with structured filenames: "title @author $year.pdf" Comment by sypianski May 6, 2021
• Thank you! I've never executed a Python script – is this the way to do it? https://www.pythoncentral.io/execute-python-script-file-shell/

  in Importing files with structured filenames: "title @author $year.pdf" Comment by sypianski May 5, 2021
• Thank you, now I only have to learn to code! :)

  in Importing files with structured filenames: "title @author $year.pdf" Comment by sypianski May 5, 2021
• Is there any workaround? For example, exporting the database elsewhere, merging duplicates automatically, and reimporting it to Zotero? I prefer to lost records than to merge everything manually. I'd appreciate having this option.

  in Merge - auto function? Comment by sypianski May 4, 2021
• Just another user expressing interest in having a built-in dark-mode setting for Zotero.

  in Dark theme for main ZOtero window (black background, white text) Comment by sypianski May 22, 2019