The files need to actually be stored in Zotero though. If you have used ZotFile to turn them into links, having file storage on won't help.

My Zotfile are synced so that when pdf's come to my download folder they are moved to my Zotero folder on drobox. That way it is easy to share a dropbox link to others, use my library with several dev

Yes that’s what I’m referring to. The annotations that can be created via zotfile. They were displaying as part of my library along with PDFs and child notes with a yellow icon beside them the PDFs ha

The third-party ZotFile plugin can extract the annotations you make to child notes in Zotero. Is that what you're referring to?

2) Configure ZotFile to store files as linked files within the base directory.

I triple checked my path settings in Zotfile preferences and they are correct (although I can believe there may have been a time during my data entry when the "Desktop" was missing from the path - it

it is not clear why you are posting this in the zotfile thread. It seems what you describe is a problem with zotero, and it is not clear to me why you drop pdfs to a folder in the first instance. The

If the file is in 'storage', the attachment would need to be a stored attachment, not a linked attachment, and you can see if that's the case based on its icon. The first thing to do would be to deter

which is the correspondence between pages and page labels. You can then use this to (manually or automatically) rename your PDF chunks. (The trick would then be to get ZotFile to recognise the pp.A-B

It took me a while to figure this out. What I've done for journal articles or book chapters, is moved any introductory pages (un-numbered or i, ii, iii - xiv) to the end using Acrobat Pro so the firs

Similar to note in other chat: I spent considerable time the other day, talking an overseas colleague through the Zotero installation + ZotFile (interrupted by a few power cuts). It's a process that n

@bwiernik I'd just like to follow-up on this. I spent considerable time the other day, talking an overseas colleague through the Zotero installation + ZotFile (interrupted by a few power cuts). It's a

I would also love a 'duplicate' on attachments, that adds "- 's comments" to the end. Maybe that could be one for ZotFile...

I understand one can use ZotFile to convert linked attachments to stored attachments. However, based on my experience, ZotFile has an issue with batch conversions. Therefore, after a test migration fr

to keep that would generally be to install the ZotFile plugin and set it to use that same folder structure. Of course, linked files in Zotero don't sync, so if syncing is more important than the fold

I recently realized zotfile is not keeping my folders updated as I add more references in. For example, I have a folder full of pdf's from journals. I drag and drop them into zotero, however no files

Thank you for your reply. Does that mean you think Joscha (ZotFile Developer) would be open to incorporating code written by someone else to provide this functionality?

It would be possible, but currently Zotfile is only written to extract underlines, highlights, and pop up comments. The Zotfile developer would likely be very open to a pull request from the community

Is there anyway for Zotfile to extract typewriter/textbox annotations from PDFs? Right now, Zotfile ignores these annotations, though it works flawlessly for highlighted text and for text inserted via

it difficult to export/share). You can use the Zotfile plugin to extract highlights and comments from PDFs for searching, and these features are also planned to be incorporated into stock Zotero in t