in Zotero. Is that assumption correct? Is Zotfile the best way to annotate PDFs? I thought I saw some forum discussion on a brand new beta feature involving PDFs, but I am not quite certain what al

@billtubbs: That's incorrect. You can use a linked-file workflow that leaves your files in place and moves new files that you save from the web to an external folder. ZotFile, linked above, can help w

@dstillman I have not yet disabled Zutilo and Zotfile.

@adamsmith : I already had ZotFile installed but I am unable to find this function. Changing the select-link to open-pdf does not work.

Zotfile is a good way to send PDFs back and forth to annotate on an iPad. There is the Papership app that some folks have had success with, though it has not been updated in some time. If an iPad app

For files (or rather: PDFs), there is zotero://open-pdf/ , which is implemented by ZotFile. I don't think there is an option for this by Zotero proper.

@bwiernik I looked in to ZotFile's "Send to Tablet" feature. It doesn't properly work. To maintain the hierarchy, I have to manually have to go through each collection (folder) and sub-collection (sub

If you just want a way to send a batch of PDFs to folders, e.g., for emailing, look at the Zotfile "Send to Tablet" feature, which will copy PDFs to a specific folder, potentially with subfolders base

Although ZotFile is a possible temporary work around, it still doesn't properly work due to bugs. Below are some examples of issues:

Do you have ZotFile installed?

@adamsmith I tested out your suggestion, however, it ZotFile did try to rename/move the files, but it only does it to one item even though I selected multiple items. ZotFile does recognize that I am t

ZotFile at least _should_ do this when you have it set to "Attach stored copy of file" and then use Manage Attachment --> Rename attachments and I know this used to work. I have a vague recollection t

I looked into ZotFile, however, I still have not figured out a way to batch convert existing item "Link to file" attachment into copy of file.

Zotfile doesn’t do anything with export, but it can be used to organize the files in your library based on a hierarchical collection/folder scheme.

@01baftb You need to specify the subfolders in the Tablet Settings of the ZotFile preferences

@ysayed Can you clarify how you did it using Zotfile? I have installed ZotFile and it seems I have to use the "Send to Tablet" feature. However, it won't properly create the hierarchical structure. I

After reading a similar question, https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/67690/export-library-as-files-and-folders-maintaining-hierarchy, I came across a possible solution is using ZotFile, however, I t

I think ZotFile does what you want.

Z 5.0.56beta18 /Zotfile 5.0.8 / macOS

When I attempt to QuickCopy a PDF, I get this message "An error occurred while trying to export the selected file." even after I have retrieved metadata and renamed and associated the PDF with the par