I will have a look to the ZotFile plugin that you advise to use (sorry "bwiernik", you told about this in the first answer here, but I had not understood properly: I thought you were telling this was

can either 1) use linked files (possibly with ZotFile) or 2) use customizable renaming rules for stored files once those exist in Zotero. If someone wants to work on implementing those, which should

Thanks. See dstillman's comment above: we've long wanted to add more customizable file renaming (similar to ZotFile) to the built-in renaming feature, and I don't think there's any reason one option c

> If you need more finetuned filenaming, you can use ZotFile as bwiernik alludes to

That said, we've long wanted to add more customizable file renaming (similar to ZotFile) to the built-in renaming feature, and I don't think there's any reason one option couldn't be the original file

you need more finetuned filenaming, you can use ZotFile as bwiernik alludes to, but I'm not sure Zotero devs will (or should) be willing to put in a preference to turn this behavior (which has been f

Do you have the Zotfile plugin installed?

I recently downloaded the Zotfile extension for syncing Zotero with my iPad via my Box account. Unfortunately, Zotero and my computer crash/freeze every time I try to "rename" existing citation attach

Are you using Zotfile to send PDFs back and forth from Zotero to a folder in your cloud drive? That would make the organization easier.

@gurdas Well, the experience on the zotero is better than endnote X8 in some specific functions, such as the three major function of ZotFile plugin. It's really amazing and unique. I really NEED to ex

Zotero is great for storing all your references in one place. Once stored, I would like to excerpt phrases from the papers in my collection and structure an outline that I can export to Word / Libre O

Turns out, I've already asked this question on another thread (https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/5301/zotfile-advanced-pdf-management-for-zotero/p49) and had no luck :/

I'm also having trouble attaching EPUBs—if I drag one onto an item, expecting Zotfile to move and rename it, nothing happens (even if I add epub to the file types it ought to handle), nothing happens.

For your personal My Library, you can also use the Zotfile plugin to move and organize attachment files in a Dropbox folder (this won’t work for files in a Group library).

entries. I suspect it's in the various notes to Zotfile, I'll post again with success (or perhaps) continued issues. But as noted, it will take awhile to move 1800 files.

@msmitka The above solution requires you to be running the ZotFile extension (http://zotfile.com/)

you'd be installing in in Zotero not in Firefox, see the installation instructions here: http://zotfile.com/#how-to-install--set-up-zotfile

I was using Zotero+Zotfile, but the update of Zotero disabled Zotfile. And I can not reinstall Zotfile because it is blocked by Firefox, issues of Add-ons signing. Can you please help me?

no, sorry. For personal libraries, you can use ZotFile to move files to Dropbox & sync them that way, but Zotero's file storage does more than just sync files, so Dropbox isn't a replacement.

Yes. It's done as part of rename with the relevant ZotFile preferences set.