If you want to use linked files, you can use "Link to File…" from the New Item (plus sign) menu for files already on your computer and set up the third-party ZotFile plugin as mentioned in the documen

You can use linked files, but the default approach would be to use stored files and just delete the originals after adding them to Zotero. Going forward, anything you save to Zotero from the web brows

(4) Right now, on iPad, the Zotfile workflow will be your best bet. There are several Android apps, but I'm not familiar with their exact functionality. An official Zotero iPad app is in the works, bu

I want to read and annotate small portion of my research on my tablet. I used Zotfile in the past, and the workflow didn't really suit me.

Many thanks for the feedback, very helpful. It triggered me to double check my settings. It turned out the Zotero preferences (General) were setup to rename attachments as well as Zotfile. When I turn

or may not be the main problem — I'd guess that ZotFile is trying to extract a table of contents from the stored copy of the file even though it already created a linked file from the file and delete

I can finish of the task (rename and move attachments) manually with Zotfile.

We'd probably need to see a Debug ID for a save attempt that failed to say more, but there are multiple ZotFile errors in the report: [JavaScript Error: "error opening PDF: C:\Users\[…]\Zotero\storage

I am also using Zotfile to rename (if needed) and move to a separate folder

For Zotfile, you can set file types that are renamed in "Tools" -> "ZotFile Preferences" -> "Advanced Settings".

field). Once imported, I have it set so Zotfile renames the article PDF to the citation key string (so it would be ideal if whatever stopgap approach is used to clear out the Journal Abbr field was a

For whatever reason, Zotfile currently works like this:

I'm new to Zotero. I installed Zotfile to this Beta version. Zotfile does not seem to follow any of the rules that I set for it for renaming files or for directing where Zotero should file downloads.

to extract the annotations result in a big X. My zotfile is up-to-date. Any help greatly appreciated.

(3) used Zotfile to rename and move this new attachment

The first time I tried to sync, I had a note that's too long, so I deleted it. Then I'm prompted the message "The note “” is too long to sync. Shorten the note and sync again". I'm using zotfile and n

You can find some background on the "text layer" that I mentioned above here and here. For scanned documents, this is often a text that is made invisible and shown above the scanned picture. Even if y

It's easy enough to check. Disable ZotFile, restart Zotero, add a linked file, wait 30 seconds (longer than necessary, but just to be safe) to make sure both indexing and syncing have finished, and th

No, sorry -- it would probably be doable in ZotFile, but I doubt the ZotFile developer is likely to implement this.

I'm new using ZotFile and there's an issue with the extracted annotations. I believe the problem is because the extracted annotations are written in a language that maybe ZotFile doesn't recognise but