I have been using ZotFile for Zotero for a couple of years and I love this plugin very much. Lately, I changed the zotero file storage folder location and of course I changed the associated setting in

Zotfile seems unable to recognize the same external hard drive whenever it is unplugged and plugged in again.

nothing super convenient, but you could use Zotfile to convert some attachments into linked files in a custom location and that custom location can be anywhere, including on an external HD.

There's a typo in the little alert box that pops up when Zotfile can't find a file in the sync folder. It ends with "does not exists". No final "s" needed there, of course.

Dropbox only matters if you place the data directory into it. I don't think Zutilo or ZotFile should cause any problems, so neither of these should matter.

Firefox plugins installed are: Zotfile and Zutilo.

thanks for all your guidance rdiaz02 ~ with my limited IT capacity, at the moment I'm using zotero standalone, syncthing, then zojo (on the android tablet - as it works offline, simply to find which a

But I'm wondering why the annotations are not being extracted directly when I have that option selected in Zotfile preferences? (Regardless, I will do some further reading)

how they work, so ideally read a bit in the ZotFile documentation and figure out what they actually do)

So, no matter what I do, I can never "see" annotations in Zotero once I've annotated a PDF in iAnnotate nor can I extract annotations (so #1 above). I'm using the latest version of Firefox on Mac OSX

Here are the instructions for Zotfile: http://zotfile.com/#install-zotfile

you can use the zotfile add-on to customize filename to pretty much anything you can think of:

or you can install&use Zotfile: www.zotfile.com

The above works with "zotero://select/items". It does not seem to work with "zotero://open-pdf", from Zotfile, but it is easy enough to write a script, called from zotero.desktop, that will call zote

I am in the process of switching from Mendeley to Zotero. I have added ZotFile and have things set up to rename and move attachments into a Dropbox folder (with ZotFile) - they are attached in Zotero

Zotfile provides more options for renaming schemes & makes it a bit easier to batch rename multiple files/etc.

Also, is there a difference between using Zotero and Zotfile for renaming the incoming PDFs?

but is there a way to rename all of the files using Zotfile?

I've moved the files into Zotero using Ctrl+Shift+drag, which worked...but is there a way to rename all of the files using Zotfile? (Actually, I can't even figure out how to rename them individually u

The Zotfile watch function doesn't work the way you might think it does; it only allows you to add the most-recently added file to a Zotero item.