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• I didn't realize there were two renaming functions. "Rename File from Parent Metadata" did not resolve my problem. Although I'm not sure what file refers to in this case, I realized that the solution below works (perfectly with custom ZotFile format…

  in Updating Resulted in Irreversible Renaming of my Library (700 files) Comment by cogmind June 24, 2019
• My apologies again. We recently had a system update where Acrobat Reader was uninstalled on all computers. On my Windows system, PDFs are no longer associated with a PDF reader, but with Firefox and thus have the same file type as HTML-files. Could …

  in Updating Resulted in Irreversible Renaming of my Library (700 files) Comment by cogmind June 24, 2019
• Sorry, I just noticed it is a related issue, but not the same - renaming by default and settings not carrying over from previous version.

  in Updating Resulted in Irreversible Renaming of my Library (700 files) Comment by cogmind June 24, 2019
• It is a functionality of Zotero. Please refer to the fourth check box in the Preferences dialogue: "Automatically rename attachment files using parent metadata". This happened during a minor update from 5.0.54 to 5.0.68. There was supposedly a fix …

  in Updating Resulted in Irreversible Renaming of my Library (700 files) Comment by cogmind June 24, 2019