In the meantime, as a workaround, I've changed the Zotfile settings to "Attach stored files" and then am going back to files I want to move to Group Libraries and am renaming the attachment. It seems

Is it related to Zotfile and the way it may have saved some of the original PDFs as links?

Zotero doesn't have a watchfolder function and ZotFile doesn't implement it (it used to have a stripped down version of it, but that never worked well and was discontinued in version 5).

I'm afraid that's not going to change in ZotFile any time soon. Depending on your PDF reader, you can fix the OCRd text directly rather than just the annotation, that would obviously work in ZotFile (

Hi, I'm a new user of zotero and zotfile. Coming from mendeley, I hope to get the watched folder function which was available in mendeley.

Hi, I know there have been a few other threads on this topic in the past, but I wonder if someone might be able to help me out. I use a Mac and Zotfile. I also recently upgraded my storage, so I know

I have tried it, and it does not. If I have highlighted text with an associated annotation, Zotfile extracts only the highlighted text, not the annotation.

Also, careful with that -- the Zotero data directory shouldn't sit on OneDrive (if you end up using ZotFile, you can specify a target custom folder on OneDrive, though).

You can use the Zotfile plugin to mimic your Zotero hierarchy, though I personally also recommend just allowing Zotero to Manage your file location and using Zotero to search and navigate.

Zotfile extractions three types of PDF annotations: Highlighted text, Text in comment bubbles, and Underlined text. I don't believe there is a way to easily stop one of those from being extracted.

Zotfile is not extracting the annotation, it is extracting the highlighted text. How can I make it extract the annotation only?

How exactly are you correcting the text? I'm doubtful you'll be able to do much about ZotFile's behavior here, but there might be a way to change what/how you're correcting in a way that ZotFile picks

Many pdf files have text formatting errors or bad OCR results - so when I make annotations I correct the errors. But when I try to extract the annotations into Zotero, it is not getting my corrected

Thank you @gurdas and @dstillman. I'll look into Zotfile for now. Where's the best place/way to monitor upcoming releases?

The ZotFile plugin can theoretically do this, but from other recent reports I believe that may not be working right now.

The PDFs on your desktop, do they show-up as "link to file" versus "stored copy of file" for those in the storage folder? You could try Zotfile to fix this.

I use `zotfile` to rename my attachments and extract annotations. When `zotfile` extracts the annotations it creates a note with hyperlinks to the document (e.g., zotero://open-pdf/library/items/2WVHW

When I try to rename/move a parent item with 2 attachments (the PDF article and a supplemental doc), Zotfile only moves the first attachment and then shows a red X next to the second attachment in the

The "Modification Date" in the explorer does not seem to change after ading annotations. In addition it has the exact same time as for the original file, which is still in the local zotfile directory;

I'm testing Zotero_linux_x86_64 (zotero 5, downloaded 2 days ago), with zotfile-5-0.9-fx and zotero-better-bibtex-5.1.50.