So, now I need to know how to relink the files or move the files to the correct location. I have looked at forum discussions such as "Batching editing selected file links with Zutilo", but I still don

I think I will need more details for this to work. First I don't know how to find the location of the files (I don't know where Zotfile put them and can't find it with Zotfile disabled). Then, do I mo

Thank you! I am relieved. Yes, what you say here sounds like what is happening. Here is a debug ID: D522605568. I have used ZotFile. I can see now on add-ons that ZotFile is incompatible with 5.0.55.

Are the PDFs you're trying to open stored files or linked file? For the latter, you would see a small chain in the attachment icon. You've posted about ZotFile before, suggesting you were actually usi

Have you used zotfile or other extensions to change your pdf directory?

I extracted my annotations with zotfile, it went well but the link from my note does not open.

In Zotero (not Zotfile) preferences go to Advanced > Files and Folders. Make sure that Linked Attachment Base Directory is the same folder. So for me, on my Mac it is:

automatic export (1.2.4, extension, disabled), ZotFile (4.2.8, extension, disabled), ZoteRename (1.3.6, extension, disabled), Zutilo Utility for Zotero (2.0.4, extension, disabled), Zotero LibreOffic

I am using Zotero and Zotfile in two computers: at home and at office. At home I run it on a MacOs High Sierra and, at office, in a Windows 10 computer.

Disabled Zutilo and Zotfile (only addons) and restarted. Still doesn't work.

Is automatic retrieval pretty new to Zotero? I use Zotero now for 4-5 years and I have always just dragged & dropped files into Zotero where metadata - as good as possible - were then retrieved automa

No, that has never worked in ZotFile -- the automatic metadata retrieval is pretty new in Zotero and ZotFile has not been updated to auto rename&move files after that happens.

When adding a file to Zotero, it correctly retrieves its metadata & creates a parental item. However, Zotfile is then supposed to automatically rename & move the attachment, as given in its settings -

Select the items, right click, click Manage Attachments, then Rename and Move. This is the standard way Zotfile works.

Sorry if this is not the correct place to ask. Using Zotfile, I set up my Zotero so the files attached to the Zotero (parental) items are now stored to a different folder and then synced using a 2nd p

Does it happen if you disable ZotFile?

I don't know. Dan has mentioned several times that they're planning on making the folder structure more human-readable in Zotero itself using some of the same ideas that attract people to Zotfile. I'm

Thanks, and those are good reasons. BTW, I recall reading something about a future version of Zotero natively having many of Zotfile's features. Is that near-/mid-/far-term?

plugins installed (scannable cite/better bibtex/zotfile) so it's hard to know which one is the culprit.

ZotFile preferences only affect where files are changed, not from where they are opened, so having the folder there correctly only means that new files will be saved in the right place.