If I have an item with a relative link in one of my collections, and zotfile has renamed and moved it, whats the correct way to then move it to another collection?

You can use shift+drag (or maybe a different key combination--I'd have to look that up) to create links rather than copies stored in Zotero, but since you'll move them with ZotFile anyway, I don't rea

so whenever I add new files (by dragging them) into Zotero they will always be stored in internal storage first until I ask zotfile to rename/move them?

Initially, I think it'll be easiest to just do this. Once you actually have those files attached to metadata, ZotFile will move them (and they'll disappear from storage folder)

zotfile source folder: Dropbox/Zotero/Watch

right, you never would want to move the files yourself, but you can move them using Zotero and then use ZotFile --> Manage Attachments --> Rename (which also moves files if set up to do so).

Or, could I move the files to different collections using zotfile, and have it move it on disk for me, while also updating the relative link to the new file location?

For Zotfile, the basic instructions are to set a custom location of files under "Location of Files" in the general tab of the preferences (and, should you want to, set up a subdirectory structure).

Yes, you probably want to use ZotFile together with Zotero's attachment base directory functionality. I can't help you with the former, but here's some info on the latter:

As I wrote earlier I found that ZotFile extracts annotations from Foxit Reader.

4. Ive heard people mention zotfile but there isnt much documentation online about it. IS it possible to set that up for my use case?

No, my guess is that the storage quota is filled by HTML Snapshots, which ZotFile doesn't move.

However, I'm saving my files to dropbox using zotfile, and only the links of these files are attached to Zotero items, so the PDFs themselves are not supposed to be saved to Zotero Storage. Is saving

My own interest is adding more granular annotation to extracted annotations from ZotFile.

Another aim is to add more granular annotation to the PDF annotations which come from ZotFile (which currently loses the colour dimension in annotations).

Great. Please report any bugs with the exact steps to reproduce and possibly any error messages: http://zotfile.com/#reporting-a-bug

work with it. You have done a great job with the ZotFile.

Thank you for the note @adamsmith. I found out another add-on was causing the problem, after removing that add-on, it seems to have disappeared. I have removed ZotFile.

Do you still have ZotFile installed? If so, which version? That seems like it'd like be a ZotFile error.

@dragonfly, the ZotFile 5.0 beta does not work with Zotero 4.0.29.10 so you won't be able to do that. Please use the separate thread for anything about the beta.