If I choose "Attach stored copy of file(s)", then ZotFile will just rename the files without moving them, is that right? So the files are still located in a subfolder named after 8 random characters?

Zotfile won’t interfere with the downloading of PDFs. For JSTOR, you need to manually open 1 PDF first so that you can accept the Terms of Use, then Zotero should be able to download the PDFs (no way

In the Zotfile preferences, for Location of Files, choose "Attach stored copy of file(s)". That will rename the files in place. Between WebDAV and symbolic link, I would recommend WebDAV, as it is les

However, the plugin ZotFile has some useful fucntions including rename the attached file and extract the annotations from PDFs. So, I want to use this plugin together with WebDAV or symbolic link. Zot

I installed zotfile yesterday in order to manage all my files on dropbox. I followed all the instructions on the zotfile official page and it successful relocated all my previously saved files in zote

After trying opening linked pdf from Zotfile, I have a window in which Zotero offer me to show the location of the file. And nothing happens when I press "Show Location" (I'm not sure if this correct

I am using the Zotfile plugin, but not to move items to a different location.

I tried Zotfile and there doesn't appear to be an option to disable renaming.

To check the last option, if you disable Zotfile and Zutilo, does it work?

I guess it must be my setup somehow... maybe the key is trapped at the OS level somehow? Or trapped by either Zutilo or Zotfile?

(Latest zotero+zutilo+zotfile, Mac OS 10.6)

Are you using the Zotfile plugin to move items to a different location?

You cannot turn files into links on import, but once imported you can use ZotFile to batch-convert attachments to links, which I think should be all you need.

Uninstall and re-install Zotfile.

But Zotfile is still inaccessible. The bug report says:

Zotero is getting a permissions error while trying to initialize translators at startup, and that will break pretty much everything else. (I've deleted your posts in the ZotFile thread, since they're

If I'm understanding this correctly, it might work to use link to files rather than Zotero attachments. Those file links could point to a network drive. You could set people up with ZotFile so that al

https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/34477/moving-storage-folder-by-zotfile

Zotfile can convert linked attachments to stored by switching to “Store files using Zotero” in the Zotfile settings.

If they're in the root and you can still open them, they're linked, not stored, even if that's not what you intended for ZotFile to do. Zotero is only capable of opening stored attachments within 'sto