As per the title. I went through this discussion https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/76181/help-with-zotfile-not-moving-pdfs-to-designated-folder

EDIT2: ok, everything went fine. Now I'm struggling with the moving part? ...How do I avoid using Zotfile to just move the PDFs?

1) disable Zotfile

Because right now every PDF is in the old Mendeley folder and I'd like to change the path for the new Zotero PDF container. If I turn on Zotfile to move all the PDF I think I will be stuck again with

Note that the main advantage of ZotFile going forward, once you have everything imported, is to automatically convert new attachments into linked files. By default Zotero will save files you add, incl

I'll just dump Zotfile and go with the Zotero rename then. I would have chosen author title and year only anyway.

To be clear, this is about Zotero's renaming, not ZotFile's. Zotero's is currently much more basic, with just title, author, and year.

Ok, I'll try to disable ZotFile and let Zotero attach them without copying.

We can't really help with ZotFile, but I believe there's a bug that prevents it from moving multiple files at once — or perhaps that causes it to fail on some files, which interrupts the process when

The import always splits the files and does not rename them all. Some of them remain inside the Zotero metadata folder and some of them are moved in the Zotfile attachment folder.

The import is slow but everything goes smoothly. Now, since I don't want to sync all the PDFs (> 1.5gb for 1100 entries) with Zotero cloud, I've setup Zotfile to move files and create attachements.

You mean for Zotfile? That doesn't exist. I think you might be able to get it with a user-defined wildcard on creator, but I'm not sure.

I'd like to use the journal abbreviation when filing PDFs with zotfile, but I'm not sure what the rule is for when that field gets filled.

I`ve been using Zotero and Zotfile to sync the pdf-attachments of my Zotero files on my OneDrive folder - everything worked out quite well!! (Thanks to the team for the great work, the helpfull plugin

My colleague has Zotero and Zotfile on a Windows PC, while I use Mac. On my machine, Zotfile renames and moves files to a custom location, but on my colleague's machine it is only renaming and NOT mov

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I hope it is okay to ask for help with Zotfile on this forum.

I'm not really sure what you're asking for. ZotFile is a third-party plugin that can extract the annotations you've added to PDF. MLA style is a format that you'd select when generating citations and

How do I achieve this? Step by step please. I am not a techie.

It's not about the file naming scheme — it's that those are stored files within the Zotero data directory, and ZotFile creates linked files outside of the data directory. Zotero doesn't sync linked fi