[i am not sure what to do to have this post to go into the zotfile thread]

who want to use that particular function of Zotfile deserve to know exactly what will no more function in Zotero (so much so as in your words "it's harder to revert from using ZotFile to using Zotero

1. Not quite. If you store files in Zotero, you cannot determine the folder structure (I think the subfolder option in ZotFile will be greyed out; even if it's not, it's going to be ineffectual).

for 1: it means that in zotfile preferences general settings, i must choose "attach stored copy of file" but not "custom location"; while i can thick the option "use subfolder defined by [/%w/%y]

1) If you want to use ZotFile to rename but not move files, you'd disable the custom location in the general tab of the ZotFile preferences

1) so should i use zotfile inside the default directory?

i have zotfile, configured with a custom location for files: (/Users/[myname]/Documents/Zotero_attach).

I have several plugins installed (Better Bibtex, Zotfile, Zutilo, Zotero Storage Scanner, LibreOffice integration) but I checked that the bug still happens when they are disabled. I have the last Zote

ZotFile used to be able to do this and still can for individual items, I believe. The batch functionality is unfortunately broken.

(As for ZotFile, I believe either ZotFile can't do this or the functionality is broken currently, since we've been getting a lot of requests for this.)

I'm a long time user of Zotfile. I'd like to move all of my pdfs back to the default location and start paying for Zotero storage to support development. But I'd like to keep using Zotfile to rename.

Same problem here! I used a custom location in the Zotfile preferences.

@dstillman "As for making annotations searchable, the third-party ZotFile plugin can extract your annotations to notes in Zotero, where they become searchable. We're planning to integrate similar fun

Years later, trying this again, still having this problem. Now in a very different version of the OS (High Sierra, 10.13.6). I disabled and uninstalled plugins (Zotfile etc.) so those are not the is

which writes them to the file in a way ZotFile can read. For Zotero/ZotFile to be aware of it, you must overwrite the same file that is already there.

@fbennett unfortunately that did not work. As soon as I set Zotfile to extract the annotations from the secondary PDF file, the rectangular Zotfile pop-up in the bottom right corner showed the name of

S/Smith/Smith, Jones, Zhang (2019) Why Zotero and Zotfile rock.pdf

possibly) put the annotations into a form that ZotFile can extract. I've seen that work with Okular files in other contexts, it's worth a try.

@adamsmith can you tell me what the Zotfile support status for these 2 programs is?

2. Easier import: ZotFile helps you with keeping your linked files organized in a pretty automated way, but it still requires some maintenance, e.g. when you drag a PDF into Zotero and have it recogni