No, you're confused. There are two types of file attachments in Zotero proper, linked attachments and stored attachments. ZotFile just provides some features that can make working with linked attachme

Without zotfile, adding an entry to the DB creates a subfolder under `storage` with some obscure code and in it the pdf file is stored. Deleting the entry makes zotero delete the subfolder.

(Which isn't to say that ZotFile couldn't watch for deletions and delete the linked files as an optional feature, but that's not something we do in Zotero, since the thought of deleting users' files o

I don't provide support for ZotFile (and someone can correct me if I'm wrong), but as far as I know it just creates regular Zotero linked file attachments, which are stored in the Zotero database, and

I have zotfile set with a custom location for PDF files.

I have zotfile set with a custom location for the PDFs.

I uninstalled zotfile, to take that out of the equation. I then made sure I had a collection from my remote group selected, and tried to add a paper to the collection. I saw the error message and was

Ok, I'll go ahead and generate a Debug ID. I may try uninstalling zotfile as I believe it was occurring prior to my installation of that plugin.

Also, try installing ZotFile 4.0 as I don't think Joscha will be very interested in chasing bugs in the 3.1 version. Available from

Thanks for info - good to know I am not only one going bonkers!! I really can't find a pattern - my current working hypoth is that most of the "established" journals transfer smoothly, whilst other mo

This is a "me too" message. I see this error message frequently. I DO use a Zotero group, but I have write access to the group. I also use zotfile. Sometimes I can save PDFs into the correct, highligh

Not sure what you mean here. This is for _linked_ attachments. I.e. the ones you attach with "Attach link to file" (not "Attach Stored Copy of File"), or attachments that ZotFile moves. This has nothi

ZotFile failing to rename files after retrieve metadata is reproducible, so you don't need to report anything else for that.

does ZotFile actually move files after you do retrieve metadata?

(@aurimas - am I misunderstanding something or does ZotFile actually move files after you do retrieve metadata? I thought it couldn't even detect that.)

Now you're asking! Cannot confirm whether Zotero or Zotfile msg, nor saving via via URL bar (I've saved about 100files today - sometimes URL bar great, other times have to do the manual download of pd

So that's a ZotFile message then? Zotero would still save items to the library even if you don't have permission to add files (it would save without attachments). And I thought that ZotFile doesn't tr

Remember that ZotFile will not work for groups.

Using Zot Standalone, in sequential saves off web of pdfs, may or may not get above msg. Checked both Zotero & Zotfile settings with & without warning - appear identical!

Update about extraction of annotations in zotfile