When running ZotFile in different Zotero profiles, respectively set to different languages (i.e. English, German) - the {%T~} wildcard for renaming goes in that language e.g. "journal article" / "zeit

Just kidding! I just discovered it *is* possible by changing an option in the Zotero config file, and it works! See Vialo’s comment on https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/5301/zotfile-advanced-pdf-ma

I’ve been trying to figure this out for a while too, and I don’t think it’s possible. I can’t get Zotfile to move anything without enabling renaming.

https://github.com/jlegewie/zotfile/pull/2#issuecomment-3359476

@qqbb thanks for the idea for troubleshooting. It seems like the problem was that it was set to read only because creating a new destination folder allowed the manage attachments function to work agai

That could be why ZotFile is not working for you. It's easy to check.

after which it gives me a grey box saying "ZotFile: New attachment(s) added" with nothing else in the box and the file still remains in the source folder without any attachment, relocation, or renami

rsync -van --delete pdfs/ zotfile-dir/

Thanks for your answer @adamsmith Indeed, the PDFs I'm trying to move are indexed to the parent item, from which the renaming should be retrieved by Zotfile.

You can't use ZotFile on top-level PDFs. They need to be attached to a parent item.

I have until now been able to import a new document to Zotero and have it renamed and linked by Zotfile to a Onedrive folder. This has been working smoothly, but today when I import a new pdf and clic

Given dstillman's comment here, a future Zotero version might use Apache Lucene/Solr for improved search functions. That's also a Java tool. Maybe it's worth looking into using PDFBox in the future as

You're misunderstanding: ZotFile is an add-on that handles the extraction of annotations only. You can use (almost) any app you want to actually highlight/annotate the PDF (and Adobe Acrobat definitel

Does this ONLY work for Zotfile? I'm trying to use it with regular Adobe Pro (highlighting the file and taking notes in Adobe) but then the menu [Manage Attachments-> Extract Annotations] doesn't even

If you are ok with one Zotero note, you could use the 'pdfExtraction.colorAnnotations' preference. The extracted annotations include color labels such as "(Red)" in the text, which you could search fo

Zotfile can extract different color highlights and label them within the note. An automatic workflow that creates many notes isn’t likely because very large amounts of notes can cause performance issu

I think neither Zotero's build-in "Rename file from parent metadata" nor "Rename attachments" in the Zotfile can meet the requirement. The only way I realized is to use the plug-in named ZoteRename. H

With zotfile this is possible, but to create the link is tideous.

The ZotFile plugin does that.

The Zotfile plugin can extract annotations