I see a box appear in the bottom right hand-corner that says 'Zotfile: Extracting Annotations' and then the name of the pdf with a big red cross next to it.

that one works for me, just takes a long time. Which version of ZotFile? What exactly are you seeing when you try?

The item metadata (bibliographic info) in Zotero will not be deleted, and that includes any Zotero notes. If you have notes in the PDF, you may be able to extract them using ZotFile. Since that create

@MrDCFP -- yes, that one doesn't work for me either. Follow the instructions here: http://zotfile.com/#extract-pdf-annotations to get this to ZotFile's developer.

Adam, I'm having the same problem. I'm using Zotfile to send PDFs to my iPad, then making annotations using iAnnotate. But when I bring the PDFs back into Zotero, Zotfile won't extract the annotations

thanks for replying. Yeah it is with Zotfile. Everything else seems to be working ok but frustratingly I cant seem to get any annotations extracted.

How exactly are you extracting annotations? I assume this is with ZotFile?

- Zotfile

PDFs attached to items yes, PDFs dragged/added to Zotero as top level items no (though you can use Zotfile's "Manage Attachments" to move them easily after adding them to a top level item).

OK, that's what I answered--so basically no, but partially/largely so once you've set up ZotFile.

If you're referring to to linked files, then the answer is that no, files are not automatically linked when you add them to Zotero (you can set up ZotFile to do that for attached files, though) but ye

This is an issue I noticed a while ago with how Zotfile was handling renaming files when no metadata was present (it names them sequentially as "pdf, pdf1, etc). These aren't recognized as actual PDF

I did try to take Dan's suggestion about zotfile though - I went into the Zotfile preferences and saw that files were saved as symbolic links. I changed this and then "renamed" all the attachments usi

http://libguides.princeton.edu/c.php?g=84032&p=544384 -- steps 5 and 6 can basically be automated with the ZotFile add-on

I'd guess that ZotFile is converting your stored attachments to linked attachments, which can't currently be added to groups.

For reference I am using Zotero Standalone on Mac with version 4.0.28.8 and I also use the add-ons "RTF/ODF scan" and "ZotFile". My library is stored on a local file (not Dropbox) and the group librar

version => 4.0.28.6, platform => Win32, oscpu => Windows NT 6.1; WOW64, locale => pt-BR, appName => Firefox, appVersion => 41.0.1, extensions => Guardião - Itaú 30 horas (3.10.0.1, extension), ZotFile

I believe the only add-ons I have are Zotfile and Better BibTex.

Thank you Adam, will look into ZotFile then.

ZotFile will do that. You can't do it with just Zotero, no.