Zotero isn't doing that. A plugin you've installed (likely ZotFile) is doing it.

For the last few years I used a laptop on which I had Zotero installed and had Zotfile running so that when I used the Chrome widget to save a reference to Zotero, the PDF that came with it would be r

ZotFile 5.1.2

hm, can anyone advise on how to modify ZotFile to not include commas in the filenames?

It is worth noting that there are other answers mentioned that the lags are occoured by plugins "Zotero Style" or "Zotero Tag" or "zotfile" under this question.

OK, it's still a little unclear how you are using Zotfile/Zotero linked PDF files.

Exactly how are you saving to the onedrive folder with Zotfile ?

Under Advanced Settings in Zotfile Preferences, do you have 'Only work with the following file types' ticked ? And if so, is the file type you are trying to move - pdf - in that comma-separated list

Second best is using a WebDAV service for file syncing. Third best is figuring out what's not working with ZotFile -- what you're seeing isn't typical.

You've tried this with one individual item? Which version of Zotero? And would you mind sharing a screenshot of the first two tabs of your ZotFile preferences? (Upload to a free image hosting site & l

I'm wondering what is the best approach to synchronize pdf files between these two laptops? at the moment, I am using a onedrive folder, and I'm saving the pdfs to it. I've tried using zotfile, but ev

I've reached my Zotero storage limit so I wanted to move everything to OneDrive. I set the custom location in Zotfile and then right clicked -> Manage attachments -> rename and move. The box appears i

I managed to fix it! Apparently, Zotfile had created a subfolder within the main zotero database. Once I put the PDF in the correct folder, it worked!

Zotero only creates stored files unless you manually add a linked file. If you're getting linked files automatically, you likely set up the ZotFile plugin to do that. See Stored Files and Linked Files

When changing to linked attachment files, you actually have to ask Zotfile to *move* the attachment PDF files to your Custom Location. Use right-click Manage Attachments\Rename and Move. If you have a

2. Then, set Zotfile's custom location to your Dropbox folder.

I also set up ZotFile "Location Files" to the dropbox folder and this is still not working.

I use zotfile to send and receive pdfs between my laptop and my tablet. Up until this week, this has worked just fine, and annotations appeared in the pdf reader of the desktop app and could be edited

I have managed to sync my files to Google Drive using ZotFile, and can see them as linked files in my Zotero app.

that no longer work, most notably Zutilo and ZotFile (but also some smaller ones).