3. Change Zotfile's advanced setting "extensions.zotfile.disable_renaming" to "true" so that it doesn't rename files when it moves them.

Sorry, I wasn't clear. I added a lot of attachments, then created parent items, then retrieved metadata. Some parent item metadata titles are useless, so I'd like to set the title to the linked filena

You can't use Zotfile on items not attached to any metadata.

I have many attachments whose metadata retrieval failed, so I'm left with many parent items with useless names. I'd like to rename them as the filenames. I am trying to use Zotfile to do this, as you

I have a related problem - I actually want Zotero to retrieve the metadata and change parent item name for 15000+ PDFs. It had success with many, but there's a large amount of items with nonsensical o

I prefer the way how ZotFile does this job, thus using wildcards over numbers: /Type/Publisher/Year/[Author] - [Title] instead of ~/Zotero/Storage/[Number]/[File]. Quit handy, when adding a file to an

As the ZotFile seem to be a old and cold project (https://github.com/jlegewie/zotfile/issues/522), and knowing that Zotero will intergate some of its pdf features, I am wondering for an alternative. I

Zotfile and BetterBibtex plugins installed

Integration (5.0.19.SA.5.0.96.2, extension), ZotFile (5.0.16, extension), Zotero Storage Scanner (5.0.8, extension), Zotero Citation Counts Manager (1.2.0, extension), Zutilo Utility for Zotero (3.8.

@JohnAtl, @viplav: This issue has been fixed in the development version of ZotFile:

Currently, the latest ZotFile release is v5.0.16 (Feb 5, 2020). For a more up-to-date version, you might want to install the development version. It fixes an issue with the title of ZotFile's Extracte

That's right. It needs to be done manually or with Zotfile - BBT simply generates the unique identifier which then becomes the base filename for electronic files; the uniqueness is important to preven

That's right. It needs to be done manually or with Zotfile - BBT simply generates the unique identifier which then becomes the base filename for electronic files; the uniqueness is important to preven

BBT doesn't do file renames -- Zotfile does file renames, but it can be configured to use the BBT-generated citation key in the rename.

@jvoros How can I do that? I only see the Renaming option until Zotfile options, and your pattern won't work there. I don't see an option in BetterBibTeX to rename files.

I think the only reason to use EndNote is if you want to be able to heavily customize reference types. If you are fine with the Zotero provided reference types or the work-arounds for things like trea

Sorry I meant that right now I have a zotfile/dropbox set up, but since the beta version of the ios + annotation tools I've been exploring moving my library to zotero's sync. So when using "convert li

that's right, yes. And same with Zotero's own & Zotfile's rename.

As long as you keep files as Zotero attachments, Zotfile's and Zotero's renaming options are functionally completely equivalent, with slightly different defaults and, of course, Zotfile being much mor

Reason I asked is that I have been using Zotfile and only recently noticed the inbuilt Zotero renaming. I think Zotfile makes a new copy of the pdf when renaming - is that right?