this behavior to some extent natively in Zotero. ZotFile (a Zotero add-on) offers some more advanced customization. In any case, this allows you to create a "Saved Search" folder in Windows that woul

are corrected, and attachments are renamed using Zotfile (Manage Attachments|Rename Attachments). All references are stored locally in a custom Zotfile folder (Journal PDFs\%w PDFs), a nested struct

One thought about getting a folder with just my pdfs sitting in it all nicely renamed is to retain Zotfile General Settings as in yesterdays *.png, but then use (?manually) Zotfile to send the pdfs to

Then when you rename with ZotFile, what option did you select in ZotFile Preferences > General Settings > Location of file?

RE: Zotfile Rename - Show File?

ZotFile settings are correct (location is supposed to be greyed out--it's handled by Zotero),

2) Following your instructions, WHERE will ZS store the (renamed) pdfs (ie "move the files back to Zotero's storage folder.") Where is this - I guess wherever ZotPrefs->Advanced-> Files & Folders -> D

The reason you're running into trouble is that you've been using ZotFile without fully appreciating what it does. The moment you're using ZotFile's "File Location" function set to a custom folder, you

files stored in the Zot_final pdf folder (ZotFilePointer) & the Storage folders of ZS, namely Zot-data. Where the old ZotFile pointers are hiding I have no idea - remember I disabled ZotFile. A-HA :

I have set up my Zotero Standalone (ZS) so that the Data Directory Location is C:\Zot_data. In addition, I was using ZotFile to send renamed pdfs to C:\Zot_final_pdf. Yesterday I found a working backu

version => 4.0.26, platform => Linux x86_64, oscpu => Linux x86_64, locale => en-US, appName => Zotero, appVersion => 4.0.26, extensions => ZotFile (4.1.3, extension), Zotero LibreOffice Integration (

All I use ZotFile for is to rename & move (renamed) child pdf's to C:\Zot_file_pdf - but this is simply "filing neatness" - if Zotero does not allow a "generic" Zotero Standalone folder (C:\Zot_data)

so you seem to be saying two contradictory things: do you want ZotFile to just rename your attachments (for which no, you don't need ZotFile. Zotero can do this via right-click on the PDF --> Rename f

2) From what I can/could work out on Forums/Documentation, ZotFile was what I needed for renaming pdfs so they vaguely mean something eg Author_date_(short)title.pdf. I am not interested in the apple

do you have the Zot_final folder on PC2? Zotero doesn't sync files you've moved with ZotFile. That's one of the principal reasons people use that ZotFile feature.

OK - I give up - I have read and re-read the documentation & can't see what I am doing wrong. 3 png's are attached - 1 shows that the top two two items have no attachment (don't know if you can see, b

Hello, I cannot get mtadata for pdf, I have been runnin zotero on a couple of devices, this is the first time I face this error. As I experience it on rather new laptop, I do not know whether it ever

I recently needed to bring some order to the file names of many of the PDF files attached to my Zotero database, and managed to find ZotFile. My plan was to obtain file names which were (almost) the s

I am using these add-ons: ZotFile 4.1.3; Automatic zotero to bibtex exporter; LyZ, Markdown here, and zotero scholar citations.

I solved the problem by editing the code. Here's my patch. https://github.com/sohamm17/zotfile/commit/2f433a43cea374bc82bd196e6d9f66c25ee804d9