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In Zotero, go to Edit->Preferences->Advanced->Files and Folders. Click on Show Data Directory. It will open your OS's folder window at your data directory location. What is the size of the file named zotero.sqlite (named exactly that) curre…
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If the only thing you want is a list of references in Word, you can select the items you want in Zotero, and then in the right click menu select Create Bibliography From Items. Choose an appropriate Citation Style, and Copy to Clipboard. Then paste …
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This add-on adds an 'Open in External Viewer' option to the item right click menu. https://github.com/retorquere/zotero-open-pdf
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If the disk drive in your old computer is still functional then it should be possible to remove it and then connect it to your new computer as an external drive via adapter. If so, then the Zotero folder can be transferred to your new computer.
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The Cita add-on is heading in that direction, but is not quite there yet. The problem is constrained by the difficulties in either (1) auto-extraction/parsing of a paper's reference list (for which there no totally robust solution currently), or alt…
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I wrote a keyboard macro that automates what I was already doing manually when I thought I probably already had a paper in Zotero. When on the paper's web page in my browser, I select the text title of the paper; then a keyboard shortcut invokes a m…
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You didn't say you were using Zotfile/linked PDFs. In that case if you want a list of linked PDF paths, the alternative code below would give you that. But then a key is not relevant to that linked PDF path, because that folder path - under Zotfile…
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Ah yes I forgot that the above code retains "storage:" in place of the local 'key' folder name for the paths of PDFs that are stored locally (because that's how they are stored in Zotero's sqlite). Try this to get all local-only PDF files with the f…
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I have been using that Delitem add-on for some months to delete linked PDFs (using right click Delete Attachments), and my experience has been that it works for me. To confirm, I just checked all the linked PDFs in my Zotero Bin/trash that I had de…
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Probably the simplest way to get a list of full attachment paths of selected items (including the 'key' folder for locally stored PDFs) is via the Zutilo add-on (right click 'Copy attachment paths' to clipboard). The following javascript gets a lis…
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@dstark glad you sorted out a way to do it. The following code would also get you a list of all linked files (PDFs and others) that Zotero knows about under S:. var filepathnames = await Zotero.DB.columnQueryAsync('SELECT path AS filepathnames FROM…
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Thanks. I worked around the diacritic file name reindexing bug by first setting Zotfile's advanced option to remove diacritics from filenames when move/renaming. However reindexing still sometimes failed on PDFs with hyphens in the file name (but se…
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Tag 'does not contain' left blank works for me (with 'Show only top-level items' selected). As suggested here: https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/comment/354682/#Comment_354682
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Re OP @va1984 's additional request to be able to cleanup same creators' first names entered in inconsistent ways, those can be found in other ways than via the main window creator list. There are two sets of code in the thread below, to get an alph…
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FWIW I don't recall Zotfile ever failing to move a PDF for me. It's worked fine for ~3500 PDFs. OTOH are there OTHER scenarios where local PDFs could remain under zotero\storage while no longer in the Zotero database (so they would not appear in th…
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You can get a list of ALL PDFs (still) in local zotero\storage using your OS's file search for *.PDF under that folder hierarchy. You can also use the code here to get a list of PDFs in local zotero\storage from My Library (ie local storage PDFs tha…
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Whenever I have done bulk moves with Zotfile, I have done it in smaller chunks. You have a lot of items and attachments. So for example sort your library alphabetically by title or creator, and then select and do Rename and Move first on all the A's…
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I can reproduce this bug in 6.0.16 (latest) under Windows 10: Select Add-Ons via Tools menu. Click on an Add-on's Homepage, and its URL opens in FF browser. Close Add-Ons window. Now Add-Ons window will no longer open when selected in Tools menu. …
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As noted in this recent thread, storage of PDFs to a single folder has traditionally been done by many people with the Zotfile add-on. Note the important caveats mentioned there. https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/100657/single-folder-for-all-pdfs
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If the hard drive is intact on the 'broken' laptop that would be another way to retrieve the PDFs. Extract the HDD from the laptop, connect to a USB-based disk controller, plug into new laptop to copy PDFs.
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All fair points. I started using Zotfile as soon as I started using Zotero, but I read enough to know exactly what I was doing. It's described along with Zotero on enough university library websites that I assume it has a large user base. PDFs store…
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This has traditionally been done via the Zotfile add-on. https://github.com/jlegewie/zotfile It had an update earlier this month so support may be more active again. However the documentation is a bit out of date, eg still refers to annotation ext…
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Not sure if I'm understanding exactly what you're asking, but the list on its own may only be a useful starting point for solving file placement problems. It does at least show you the 'size' of your problem. Once the list tells you which local PDF…
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You can use a tag that you set up with a star emoji .... https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/comment/413708
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Interesting. My Lean Library setup with Zotero doesn't use any of that setup under the Lean Chrome extension's advanced settings mentioned on that page. I just had to choose my university library in the Lean browser extension's quick settings the fi…
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I very often find that I need to do a web search for a paper which I have as an item but not PDF in Zotero, or search for a reference in a PDF paper's reference list. Find Available PDF does not search a sufficiently wide range of sources for me. I …
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Use Zotfile's right click, Manage Attachments->Rename and Move.
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Use the Delitem add-on to delete linked attachments (with or without their associated item), via right click menu. https://github.com/redleafnew/delitemwithatt
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The Delitem add-on adds the ability to delete (linked) attachments, via right click menu. https://github.com/redleafnew/delitemwithatt
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Adding to my manual method above for finding locally stored PDFs (that I have omitted to have Zotfile move to my linked storage folder), I now use the code below run in Tools\Developer\Run Javascript. It returns a list of all PDF files that are (sti…