OK, thanks. I've submitted a patch to ZotFile that should fix a number of errors showing up in your report, including what is likely breaking renaming of multiple files.

1. About the older version ZotFile, I installed it manually to try wheter older version will work, the auto-update function is fine.

I'm in the processing of migrating from Papers3 to Zotero. (Lost my patience with the dismaying neglect of Papers3 after buyout by ReadCube.) I'm lovin' Zotfile and its ability to send to and get from

Zotfile on a different machine is now not moving attachments to the specified custom location (on OneDrive, which is also specified as the linked attachment base directory) when I right-click on the a

Make sure you're running the latest version of ZotFile, which is 5.0.12.

This discussion was created from comments split from: Installing Zotero for Mac-Catalina.

ZotFile (5.0.8, extension)

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By the way, I am using the extension ZotFile to manage the names of those papers but I do not think it causes the problem.

confirm the likely source of my problem, I think Zotfile). However, when I extract annotations from my PDF's with Zotfile, the text from my highlights seems to have its spacing all messed up and beco

The ZotFile settings don't matter for where Zotero is looking for linked files. You need to have the base directory set on both machines to the respective folder holding the PDFs. Is that the case?

In ZotFile preferences, I selected the General Settings tab. Under Location of Files, I chose Custom Location and set that to the same Zotero-PDFs path above. I ensured that "Use subfolder defined by"

On laptop A, I have a working Zotero installation where the attachments were renamed using ZotFile to point at an iCloud folder. I can open these attachments fine.

@ouerss: Can you provide a Debug ID for that happening? If so, we can work with the ZotFile developer to fix that.

@tychen742 Thank you very much for the sharing. But when I tried to use Zotfile to rename all attachments, it always works for only several attachments and then stop working, so I have to re-run the r

2) That's a Zotfile feature (www.zotfile.com)

Recently upgraded Zotfile to from 5.0.10 to 5.0.12, and the "Add Attachment from Source Folder" option is gone. Tried 5.0.11 and found the same issue. Downgrade back to 5.0.10 and the option appeared

IF there is a link (and probably no work around as the work laptop is heavily policed) is zotfile linkage the only viable solution left?

Zotero.ZotFilezotfile/content/zotfile.js:677:27

I set up Zotfile to move new and existing attachments to a custom location, my OneDrive & I set up Zotero base directory to be this folder as well.