If my memory serves me right ZotFile would copy the PDF to a sub-directory the same name as the sub-collection. I can't seem to get this to work. I suspect wildcards are required but I can't find any

You'll need a replacement for ZotFile. Most people use ZotMoov but there is also attanger (for "Zotero attachment Manager"). Functionality should be the same.

Howdy all. Switched to Zotero 7 and am struggling a bit with the absence of Zotfile.

Note that linked PDF files don't work with the Zotero mobile apps (nor Zotero Groups nor the web library). There are workarounds for mobile app use via Zotmoov's custom menus (similar to Zotfile's old

web connector (those plugins replicate what Zotfile used to do). You set a 'Move To' folder for that - that would be your PDFs folder.

Zotmoov replicates Zotfile's old send/get from tablet (or other device) via its custom menus.

best method of doing this? Historically I used ZotFile to send PDFs to a directory and inserted comments and highlights in the PDFs directly, then sucked the annotations back into the library. ZotFil

@hoppek in Zotmoov you specify a permanent 'move to' folder, the same as Zotfile's Custom Location folder. There is no need to specify a folder every time the Zotero connector downloads a PDF.

I don't use ZotMoov, so others would have to say, but my understanding is that the file move functionality is equivalent to ZotFile. Zotero has much more advanced renaming options now, so those should

Do you know if there is a way to change ZotMoov settings for naming and placing files in a directory? I had been using ZotFile and it's disappointing to see this isn't supported in the new version of

was the creator and long-term developer of ZotFile, that many people here may have used.

Yeah, those are indeed contradictory settings. You have your files moved and linked (by ZotFile, presumably) to a location outside of the Zotero data directory. You may well have them synced from ther

As noted above, Zotmoov and Attanger both do this, replacing ZotFile in that way, but you also seem somewhat confused about file storage in Zotero: if you're using WebDAV, you want your files in the Z

Thank you for your comments. I now understand the new file designation. A useful feature in Zotfile was the ability to move (linked) files to an external (cloud) drive when attachments were added. Thi

Zotfile does not support Zotero v7+. And since Zotero enhanced its attachment file renaming scheme in v7, the plugins that have replaced Zotfile's linked file operations (Zotmoov or Attanger) leave re

When dropping files as attachments to an item I believe the Zotfile utility allowed renaming and moving of the file to a cloud database automatically. I have set preferences in Zotero to rename files

ZotDroid, ZotEZ2, Zoo, and workflows based on Zotfile, as well as BiBTeX Android apps on the exported bib file (all documented in the Zotero-to-Referey repo). I now realize that probably I should hav

Agreed about this feature request. Such an approach was possible with Zotfile, which unfortunately is no longer supported and does not work in Zotero 7.

You are misremembering. That didn't change and never happened. You might have used linked files before, maybe with Zotfile?

How are you adding files to Zotero ? The linked-files plugins (Zotfile up until Zotero v6; Zotmoov or Attanger in Zotero v6+) only work automatically to move files to your designated linked-files fold