Thank you. This is hopeful and somewhat helpful. I did as instructed but found that in about 1 of 5 cases, the rename failed. Specifically, the batch renamer (ZotFile?) just froze with its pop-up prog

There is an important caveat to using this approach IF you want option to later revert to storing attachments in Zotero (as opposed to as linked attachments) - some users report that Zotfile is unable

Thanks for your reply @dstillman and your willingness to consider implementing this feature! Zotfile has been such an excellent and well-supported add-in for so long that I have taken for granted tha

I'm not sure when this will be fixed in ZotFile, but it probably makes sense for us to implement this in Zotero itself, probably with an option (unselected by default) to remove the original linked fi

This discussion was created from comments split from: extracting annotations w/zotfile works BUT the link does not connect me to the location on pdf.

Unless you can reproduce this with ZotFile disabled, you'd need to report this to the ZotFile developer.

I think this is the same issue I am having on my Microsoft Surface. Here is an example of my underlying zotfile: zotero://open-pdf/library/items/49X6TVYA?page=11

Is there a way to turn off renaming of PDFs? I've got ZotFile set to let Zotero do the renaming, and then I've got turned renaming off (Prefs > General).

Would a developer or a very experienced user please weigh in on whether or not exporting Zotero database and attachments in RIS format (from a linked attachment file system based on Zotfile), then imp

Right click on the download link here: http://zotfile.com/, choose Save Link As and save the .xpi file, then install the .xpi you downloaded in the Tools->Add-ons menu in Zotero.

2) Set the Zotfile plugin to rename and move attachments to this folder.

1) Zotfile can automatically move attachments when you add items to Zotero, so you shouldn’t need to manually choose the Rename and move often. Zotfile can’t currently avoid renaming all attachments.

What you write is basically right except that Zotero itself will not save anything to the base directory regardless of settings. You can set up ZotFile to do so, but will have to separately set the Zo

- I have Zotfile and Zulio add-ons and I’m using the PC standalone version in one location and Mac version in another (eventually want iPad access, too)

Dear Sir! My zotero desktop lack zotfile, and I couldn't download it to extract notes from PDFs. What shall I do?

1) I use Zotfile to manage attachments: to automatically move them to the folder of the external cloud and rename them. As far as I understand there is no option to do this automatically after creatio

Has anyone on the zotfile side looked into this bug with moving linked attachments back to zotero storage?

You can do this in a roundabout way using the “Send to Tablet” feature in the Zotfile plugin. It can save a separate annotated copy when it retrieves the PDFs. No actual tablet is necessary.

Can other users confirm or deny if batch conversion of linked attached files to Zotero storage via Zotfile is broken?

Thanks to bwiernik for the help, and major props to ZotFile developer jlegewie!