If you want ZotFile to rename your files, the check box here should not be checked:

2 - download PDF in Firefox. Nothing happens. PDF stays in downloadsfolder ( I hoped Zotfile would pick it ut)

I thought that the zotfile extension is updated automatically, but it isn't.

Dear Zotfile experts,

I realized that Zotfile only extracts those text annotations which are "comments." It does not extract text, whether typed or written, on the side margins. This seems to be the problem.

I am having a similar problem. I am using Zotfile and Notability to annotate my PDFs on an iPad. I can make annotations on my iPad in notability, retrieve the PDF with Zotfile, and read them on my com

(a) Enable Zotfile's automatic renaming of new entries. This setting might be somewhat difficult to spot in Zotfile's settings. It can automatically move attachments to a custom location. See "Tools"

Yes, it still happened after I disabled Zotfile.

I am using Zotfile to manage my PDFs in a sub-directory of ~/Documents (synced with Dropbox). I don't use Preview and don't use iCloud for document storage, and Zotero has been working well since the

That's from ZotFile. I don't know if it's still used. I changed the Zotero Data Directory, after manually moving the directory with Zotero closed, to the above path to keep it all self contained and n

Thanks for the clarification. Yes, I have been using Zotero since 2016 and that was the date on those files (now deleted together with some other detritus). The reason they were there is that after th

This discussion was created from comments split from: Unable to save local files with Chrome connector.

I tried downloading the ZotFile add-on and I am getting a message that it is corrupt. Any suggestions???

For a workaround, you could use the ZotFile add-on, which adds a "Attach New File" context menu for items, accessed by right-clicking. You could also make use of the Zutilo add-on, which adds keyboard

I currently use Zotfile and Zutilo with great success to manage my PDFs. No major complaints or bugs.

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Could you please rectify? I am using Zotfile to rename the files also

You need to wait until it's accepted by the ZotFile developer and a new version is pushed.

Extracting annotations from PDFs and putting them into Zotero notes is a feature of the ZotFile plugin.

You can use the Zotfile plugin to automatically extract highlights from a PDF to a note attached to the item. You could copy the extracted citations and page numbers from here onto your document.