@paulstrange: By default, Zotero stores files within its own data directory. If you really want to keep files in your own external directory, you can use linked files, and the ZotFile plugin makes tha

(Don’t use that setting—that’s not what it does, and Skim annotations aren’t standard and won’t work easily with Zotfile.)

i tried to change it and use Skim, by changing extensions.zotfile.pdfExtraction.openPdfMac_skim

Thanks for your support. At the time of writing my initial post, I saw no nothing under Tools / Add-ons / Extensions. I re-installed zotfile and things were back.

as i understand zotfile should be able to extract not only highlighted passages but also text added by the reader by means of [text fields] and/or [memos].

2) No. It will make a link to the file at it’s current location. The easiest way to setup a linked file workflow that automatically moves files is to use the Zotfile plugin. With this installed, when

human readable file hierarchies is where ZotFile comes in. Specifically, I will want to specify a directory for the field "linked attachment base directory" in Zotero and the same directory for the c

undeleted in the on line storage as well. My ZotFile is set to "Attach stored copy of file(s)".

If you prefer, you can add files as linked files pointing to your existing folder, but then they won't sync via Zotero. If you do want to use linked files, the third-party ZotFile extension can automa

I really like ZotFile - especially the iPad annotation feature. I only have one issue: how to handle annotation continuously.

No, zotfile extracts all of the annotations from a file each time. Are you sure that the (1-3) annotations are still active and valid in the PDF file?

Anyone has a solution to the following https://github.com/jlegewie/zotfile/issues/353. I'm just posting the link in order not to duplicate unnecessary stuff.

There isn’t currently a way to merge extracted annotations from Zotfile with any manual edits you may have made, so Zotfile takes the cautious route of not overwriting an existing extracted note. You

Also does the hidden setting "extensions.zotfile.tablet.updateExtractAnnotations" have the effect that I'm looking on the tablet, (i.e.) updating the annotations extracted and not creating different f

This problem rised after cloud overflowing and using local storage via ZotFile.

-- if it doesn't you can re-create it from the ZotFile preferences.

Hi there,

instead of relative ones, since I've set zotfile and indicated where pdfs live and where's the base directory.

Accept the risk message and search for extensions.zotfile.wildcards.default

previous folder organization, then you can use Zotfile to move your files and that will also update the link to those files in Zotero. There is some confusion if Zotfile will let you move files witho