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• This would be major! For me, an extremely important point. It would be highly appreciated. Also, moving away from such 'solutions' (rather: problems) as 'iBooks' would be a huge relief. Importantly, it would unify Zotero as an organiser and reader.

  in Built-in Reader for Epub/Snapshots Comment by Davkil July 12, 2022
• It seems I was able to reproduce the problem by importing a folder with a large amount of pdfs. I'm trying again just now to make sure. Will send the log data. Moving to github is fine.

  in How to add an existing library (actual pdfs) to Zotero Comment by Davkil May 20, 2021
• Not at all. Thank you for nitpicking and helping out! I did 1., 2., 3. (opting for "store") And I tried again with a folder containing far less files. It worked! So something specific must have been amiss during the first large import. The internet…

  in How to add an existing library (actual pdfs) to Zotero Comment by Davkil May 19, 2021
• Hi, Thank you very much for your help. To clarify: 1) I imported the files, not merely link to them. 2) While doing the folder import, Zotero did not check for metadata. For no pdf. The box seen in the image did not appear. 3) When I drag files to Z…

  in How to add an existing library (actual pdfs) to Zotero Comment by Davkil May 19, 2021
• How can I send it to you?

  in How to add an existing library (actual pdfs) to Zotero Comment by Davkil May 18, 2021
• This one worked, e.g. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EARLY COLONIAL MAYA NEW YEAR'S CEREMONIES AND SOME ALMANACS IN THE MADRID CODEX 10.1017/S0956536100111034

  in How to add an existing library (actual pdfs) to Zotero Comment by Davkil May 18, 2021
• Well yes, you want a title are the actual pdf or?

  in How to add an existing library (actual pdfs) to Zotero Comment by Davkil May 18, 2021
• That doesn't seem to be the case. In no incident of an imported pdf was there metadata retrieved. Manual lookup via context menu "retrieve metadata" does work in 50%+ of cases. Hence, the lookup must have been skipped at the original import via "zot…

  in How to add an existing library (actual pdfs) to Zotero Comment by Davkil May 18, 2021
• I have imported all those pdfs and it seems to have worked well. Only that the folder import doesn't look up metadata; for 20.000+ items, that's quite a bit of work. Unfortunately, there seems to be no easy way to match the imported metadata with th…

  in How to add an existing library (actual pdfs) to Zotero Comment by Davkil May 18, 2021
• Hi Emiliano, Thank you very much. I'm trying importing the pdfs into a clean (empty) zotero library now.

  in How to add an existing library (actual pdfs) to Zotero Comment by Davkil May 16, 2021