* I also regularly read/annotate pdf-items from Zotero itself with Zotfile 

1. Make sure you've installed the latest versions of Zotero (5.0.85) and Zotfile (5.0.16). (Note that zotero://open-pdf links are now exclusively handled by Zotero. Zotfile removed its function in ver

Testing this feature out now... With the same item in multiple collections, Zotfile will offer a dialogue when renaming the file. The user can only choose one of the collections; Zotfile will put the

With all that in mind, I am indeed considering the move to either Zotero's internal database or using Zotfile to automatically maintain a folder hierarchy database of attachments, by subcollection (%c

Zotfile developers seem to have deprecated the extensions.zotfile.pdfExtraction.openPdfMac preference flag, and at Github I'm being told that the issue is in Zotero's end.

One option is to use Zotfile's "Attach New File" function to grab a saved pdf file from the Downloads folder, see here.

More importantly, though, this just isn't really a workflow we recommend, which is why we're unlikely to do much here. Most people, even when using linked files, just rely on Zotero or ZotFile to mana

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