I did a search and found some references to zotfile being able to do this, so I installed it and set its File Location preference to the Dropbox folder. Then, following some comments in the forum,

I was using the "rename file from parent metadata" option which should be the one embedded in Zotero and not the one you mentioned that is from Zotfile. Actually I couldn't find this option because it

version => 5.0.95.3, platform => MacIntel, oscpu => Intel Mac OS X 10.16, locale => en-US, appName => Zotero, appVersion => 5.0.95.3, extensions => ZotFile (5.0.16, extension), Zotero DOI Manager (1.3

I would love to use zotfile in order to extract annotations from pdfs. But unfortunately this does not work - there's an error-sign that says "Attachments skipped because they are top-level items, sna

I don't need cloud storage anymore. I set it up using ZotFile.

I use v5.0.16 ZotFile plugin and v5.0.95.3 Zotero.

Yes. ZotFile just creates linked-file attachments, as you can do yourself manually. So if I set "Linked Attachment Base Directory", the path of the PDFs inside the sqllite database will use relative

Tools > ZotFile preferences > General Settings > Location of File

I don't think there's a way to get the tags, no, but you're aware that you can set up ZotFile to automatically create subfolders (right in the general tab of the ZotFile preferences)?

>So if I set the first but not the second, ZotFile will move my files but Zotero will not find them anymore?

So if I set the first but not the second, ZotFile will move my files but Zotero will not find them anymore?

Tools > ZotFile preferences > General Settings > Location of File

I have installed ZotFile to do so.

I keep my pdf files in my cloud service (Box) with the help of Zotfile. But I have a difficulty to find the article I want. Because there is no subfoldering system (it keeps all my documents in one fi

I'm using version 5 of Zotero and ZotFile in Windows 10 home.

Zotero can used entirely locally without syncing the database at all. This can be integrated with cloud storage for attachment files using the Zotfile plugin.

(Zowie is great idea, I use Python script to clean both my Zotero folder and my Zotfile storage folder from pdfs that are not linked to database or are not moved by Zotfile because the dont have pare

@danieltomasz Yes. I actually use Zotfile myself. Note, however, that Zowie does not internally implement a file-watching scheme, so you'll have to handle running Zowie after additions are made to you

Great tool! Does it works with pdfs that are moved by Zotfile?

Beside that I've read in some thread (on Zotfile or BBT) that the startup routine is currently in hot mess and there were plans to redesign that too.