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Do you only require a single bibliography for the entire combined thesis, or a bibliography for each chapter ?
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See https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/changes_not_syncing
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To be clear, you do mean linked PDF attachment files not PDF files in local Zotero storage (under Zotero\storage), correct ? (sometimes people use the term 'linked' file ambiguously - it has a specific meaning in Zotero) When you move a Zotero item…
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I also saw someone suggest that method of using ChatGPT to parse a reference list to get it into Zotero, in that case via BibTex ... https://twitter.com/MushtaqBilalPhD/status/1753785908266963066
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Tags would be the way to do that. If you want the type to visible in the main pane, you would assign a colour to the tag. If you want to make particular types easily accessible all at once, you would use a saved search.
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If you mean that you have "attachment notes" - that is, notes belonging to individual attachment files (image files in your case) - my understanding is that they are being phased out. There were quite a few capabilities of other note types that they…
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Firstly, the normal way to have linked attachment files available to Zotero across computers is to store them in a cloud-mirrored folder (eg Dropbox, Google Drive), at the same path on each computer. Or if the cloud-mirrored folder has a different p…
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There's no real need for a more complex Linked Attachment Base Directory functionality to support that use case. One way to handle it would be to create a new folder in your OS for the PDF files sent to you, and a collection for them in Zotero. The…
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Instructions for that Quick Copy method (that uses the system clipboard not the word processor plugin) are here: https://www.zotero.org/support/creating_bibliographies#quick_copy If it's not working for you, describe your Export settings (ie item f…
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As the OP's institution was blocking 7-zip, that method would not have worked for them. Although maybe another zip utility that *is* allowed at their institution would work in place of the 7-zip method described ? But then after un-zipping, attempti…
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There can be a short delay (minutes) before changes (emptying the bin) are reflected in online storage when synced. However it's also possible that your local storage (still) exceeds your online file storage quota, in which case the displayed Curren…
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There are different ways of adding linked PDF attachment files, for different scenarios. Zotfile is involved in some of those ways. Zotero also has some of its own ways of adding linked files. Additionally, only the Zotfile ways use Zotfile's renami…
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That link suggests using a symlink to iCloud for the zotero\storage folder (where PDFs and some other things are stored). The Zotero database remains locally stored (one level up from that). Whether (meta)data syncing (free/unlimited) can be turned …
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See https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/files_not_syncing
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The zotero-reference plugin is the nearest to doing that. It will read an article's reference list by parsing the PDF, or loading it from Crossref. It puts the list in a new References tab in the PDF Reader. It highlights those references already in…
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It's a little hard to understand your exact problem. However it may relate to the differences between merging and deleting. And the need to record accurate counts for certain types of academic search jobs. When you merge two items that exist in two…
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Another postscript to this old thread: the delitem plugin can now delete the linked PDF attachment when an item is deleted. There is a version for Zotero v6 (0.1.06) and the latest version for the Zotero v7 beta. https://github.com/redleafnew/delite…
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Since you have an existing folder of PDF books that you wish to maintain, you can create linked attachments in Zotero to those files in their folder. Linked files do have some limitations described at the link below, but they would suit your compute…
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How are you manually adding the file ? If you drag a PDF from a folder in your OS onto a Zotero item, Zotero will first copy the file to a folder under Zotero\storage; and then Zotfile will kick in and rename/move it from that location to its Custom…
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The ability to open all of an item's image-file attachments at once (from their individual folders under Zotero\storage) could be written in a plugin. Somewhat similar to the Preview plugin that displays one or more pages of a PDF in a Preview tab o…
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I have also run into poor unicode support in *other* applications when handling diacritics in PDF filenames, which then impacted on Zotero's correct handling. For example when *external* custom code searches for orphaned PDF attachments in a list of…
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For attachment files (PDFs etc), you can use linked files in such a location, if you can live with the limitations (they don't work with Groups or the mobile apps or the web library). You are responsible for syncing those files across computers (ie …
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You can indeed search the Zotero styles repository for 'annot' - for the several existing modifications of standard styles that would include the descriptions for an annotated bibliography if added in the Extra field. Perhaps it is worth creating a …
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An Advanced Search is the easiest way to find all items of a given type. The search interface does not display the count of how many items it returned (that feature should be added). However if you save that search and click on it in the left pane t…
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You can generate reports by right clicking on one or more selected items in the main library pane of the Zotero Desktop, then selecting Generate Report from Item. That Report includes any Notes under the item(s). https://www.zotero.org/support/repor…
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OK ... that Zotero Web Connector example with PDFs *currently open* in your browser is another caveat I guess. ;) I can't recall that I've ever struck that one, because I almost never open a journal article PDF in my browser, and then download via t…
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Firstly, is the PDF currently being saved successfully under Zotero\storage - that is, the problem is not related to the Zotero Web Connector ? For Zotfile to work, you just need the Custom Location folder to be entered *and* that option selected. …
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If you do not wish to add the PDF to an existing item, the method is to drop it *between* (any) existing items. Zotero will show a a thin line if your mouse cursor is between items when you are about to drop (as opposed to highlighting an item if yo…
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In @JavierHerRe 's other thread, using the modifier key* when dragging PDFs from an existing folder - when you want to keep them stored in that folder - was mentioned as a way to create Zotero items with links to those PDFs in that folder. That wou…
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So it sounds like you have your Zotero database on Onedrive and you also have your PDFs stored as linked attachments rather than under Zotero\storage. As you say, the first is a unsafe configuration (see 'Unsafe Data Directory Locations' at the link…