4. You can use tools like ZotFile to interact with the annotations in your PDFs, store them in notes, have links to specific text passages in your PDFs from Zotero notes. You can use text analysis too

Hi Adam, I used Zotfile Preference to select the 'custom location' which points to a subfolder in 'My Document', depending on which library collection I use. Yes, there are pdf files still in those su

Hi Dan, I am a relatively new Zotero user, started using Zotero more frequently in the last few months. I don't understand why some times certain pdf files can be stored in a designated location while

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There might be an issue with ZotFile/Zotero. Someone else reported a similar issue. https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/5301/22/zotfile-zotero-plugin-to-rename-move-and-attach-pdfs-send-them-to-ipad-

I'm not having much luck extracting annotations using ZotFile to notes in Zotero. I've tried both Preview and Skim (recommended on the ZotFile site) but neither seems to work.

ever not want a parent item. and because I use zotfile, and zotfile requires a parent item. So when I add a new PDF I have to remember to create a parent item and then remember to rename (because I a

Hmm, that's odd. What version of Zotero, Iceweasel, ZotFile are you using? (I was using Zotero Standalone 4.0.22 with ZotFile 3.1 in my screenshots btw)

1. showing my zotfile settings (Sorry it's in French but you can see I did set a specific folder and the "always rename" option exactly like in the screenshot posted by aurimas).

Could you take a screenshot of the general tab of your ZotFile preferences, upload it to a free image hosting site (dropbox, imgur.com) and link to it here. That should definitely work and I've never

folder. So there is a bug: according to my zotfile settings, the pdf should be moved to my specific folder. Indeed, in the main tab of zotfile settings (the first one) I set a specifi location for fi

Since ZotFile is designed to use the information of the parent item for both renaming and, if you want to, the exact location to move an item to, it doesn't move PDFs that you drag or save into Zotero

I understood Zotfile could achieve this three steps goal (download pdf > create entry > link pdf).

What I was trying to get at above, is that you can set up ZotFile to move your files to whatever folder you want even if you do choose to use the URL bar icon.

Folder 3: where my "relabelled" pdfs are sent by Zotfile/Zotero

attach the corresponding PDF. You can then tell ZotFile to automatically rename that PDF and move it to some arbitrary folder. Retrieve Metadata feature is really intended for people that are startin

c) Having told Zotfile under "Location of Files" to send the renamed pdfs to e.g. C:\Zot_refs, I will find COPIES of the original pdfs in the "new" folder location C:\Zot_refs correctly labelled?<br /

attach the corresponding PDF. You can then tell ZotFile to automatically rename that PDF and move it to some arbitrary folder. Retrieve Metadata feature is really intended for people that are startin

What I want is Zotero or Zotfile to then use this metadata to rename my original pdf (in this example,"S-01_867087.pdf") to the child format of "Author_date_title".