have Zotfile installed, It does a great job with PDFs. In zotero I find "manage attachments" -> "extra annotations" really useful.

Last authors are natively available for renaming in Zotfile (q/Q, and u/U respectively are the wildcards; just not properly documented)

Thanks for your answer. I get that I might be on my own since this is tied up with ZotFile also.

My solution was to use Better Bibtex (https://retorque.re/zotero-better-bibtex/), which has native support for last authors in its citation key generator. Then I use Zotfile to automatically rename us

You could write a Zotfile wildcard that renames per item type (there is one for example below), but, honestly, I would say why bother? I don't know that this is a distinction you really need to make i

Good to know! I just did some tests with both Zotfile and Zotero's respective renaming commands. Indeed, both stripped out semi-colons and could not handle double-quote marks. Interestingly, both d

Note that Zotero should automatically strip characters that aren't valid in filenames on all modern OSes. I don't know if ZotFile somehow goes around that, but it shouldn't. You should be able to test

I would love more flexibility with this feature, akin to that of Zotfile:

"Manage Attachment → Rename Attachment" is a ZotFile feature, not a Zotero feature, so we can't really help with that. But I would check the ZotFile preferences to see where it's set to save files, an

http://zotfile.com/#renaming-rules

Those threads you linked to are very old. If you set the Zotfile settings to use Zotero storage or to use linked field but leave the file location blank, it should rename the files in place, I believe

No, it's really much cleaner and quicker to just set your Linked Attachment Base Directory properly, and then change it if you move the folder somewhere else. Using ZotFile for this means it has to ac

(Also, as an aside, is it a bad idea to use double-quotation marks in the file names, as I do? I notice that Zotfile's custom string definitions seem to ignore double quotation marks, but will allow a

Thank you for the response. The wildcard info looks quite flexible, but unfortunately, I cannot use Zotfile for this purpose, as it will indeed move the files as well as re-name them. I just tested

Date From Last Modified (0.0.12, extension), ZotFile (5.0.16, extension), Zutilo Utility for Zotero (3.4.0, extension), Zotero LibreOffice Integration (5.0.22.SA.5.0.85, extension), Better BibTex for

You can have item-type dependent file naming conventions with ZotFile using wildcards: http://zotfile.com/#user-defined-wildcards

Presumably such is impossible with Zotero or any add-ons? I've been experimenting with Zotfile as well, but it only seems to allow a single naming convention for all of the above categories of media.

2) with the ZotFile extension with custom configurations, which would rename the pdf to (Einstein - Does the inertia of a body ...)

2) with the ZotFile extension with custom configurations, which would rename the pdf to (Einstein - Does the inertia of a body ...)

So, is there a way to display the creator field in Zotero for at least 3 authors? Would really appreciate help here, I am new to Zotero (switched from Mendeley because of ZotFile) but this makes it re