If you don't want to use Zotero syncing, you can use linked files and the third-party ZotFile extension to keep files on an external cloud storage folder.

Someone more familiar with ZotFile should be able to tell you, but I think you can just select the items with attachments, right-click, and choose Rename Attachments.

Zotfile 5.0.16

go to the preference "extensions.zotfile.pdfExtraction.formatAnnotationUnderline", right click, Modify, and just delete all of it. You can do the same for "formatAnnotationHighlight" if you want. Th

I followed the documentation and set up zotFile to save new attachments in Google Drive using linked files. This works well. However, I cannot find a way to move my old attachements that were stored

and the file attachments to be in iCloud using zotfile. Maybe these extras are just some remnant of the (many) problems from keeping the data directory in iCloud? Do you think I can just delete them

I've noticed my Zotero folder is getting quite large in file size (>6 gb's), and not because of the file attachments (which are stored on iCloud with zotfile). I have over 100 zotero.sqlite and zotero

Or would there be a way to re-synchronize attached files from a library? Zotfile could help me?

i discovered the possibility -hidden in Zotfile- of differentiating by highlight color the annotations made in a PDF.

another folder on google drive (specified in the Zotfile preferences).

I tried ZotFile in the standalone, but it can't get at the bookmarklet-captured files in ZFS, it seems that the standalone client doesn't look at ZFS at all if it is set to save attachments in WebDAV.

If you’re having ZotFile move files to a given folder as linked file attachments, you do want to set the Linked Attachment Base Directory to that same folder so that file paths are stored relative to

If you want to sync your PDFs using Google Drive, it is easiest to use Zotfile, yes. You should NOT use the setting you see in Zotero preferences. That will place your entire Zotero database in Google

I read that one needs the Zotfile plugin to link a google drive folder. But I see an option under Zotero preferences for files and folders to be linked to any location I like. So my question is...wh

In the ZotFile .xpi package, which I have educated myself to understand is just a zip file with the extension changed and therefore can be changed back to .zip to see inside, there is a file:

ZotFile does not extract the "anno.content" portion of the PDF annotations for "Underline" comments, only the "anno.markup" portion. In other words, it does not extract my personal text that I typed

My setup uses zotfile (5.0.16) and some other plugins but I don't think this is related to either.

On the linux side I could find the same entries and there the filenames are displayed well within zotero but on the filesystem show strange characters. I changed the filenames with Zotfile extension a

You can use the ZotFile extension to automatically move files you add going forward to that same directory as linked files.

appVersion => 5.0.82, extensions => ZotFile (5.0.9, extension)