About 2 weeks ago I decided to convert from zotfile storage back to internal storage, turned sync off (no need right now) and converted everything over night from zotfile management back to Zotero man

Some PDFs in Zotfile's Custom Location can indeed become 'orphaned' if one uses Zotero's Move Item to Bin on the item to which they belong. Zotero does not delete linked PDFs. So one should always use

I am using ZotFile to link PDFs to my Zotero library. All PDFs are stored in a directory, with some renaming rules.

Right, we obviously know what ZotFile did, but that's not something we'll be supporting in Zotero. We specifically discourage the use of linked files — which wouldn't work in the web library, iOS app,

appName => Zotero, version => 7.0.0-beta.33+437e2bd92, os => macOS 13.5, locale => en-US, extensions => Zotero GPT (0.3.0, extension, disabled), Crush Reference (0.6.1, extension, disabled), Translate

I was referring to linked attachments, not Zotero-stored ones. Zotfile allows two kinds of "renaming": one template for the filename itself, another for the subfolder where you want the linked attachm

This discussion was created from comments split from: Automatic file renaming not reported properly in Zotero 7.

extension), Zotero Figure (0.0.8, extension), ZotFile (0.2.0, extension), Better Notes for Zotero (1.1.4-6, extension), Zotero One (5.0.7, extension), Better BibTex for Zotero (6.7.107, extension), E

I was just wondering about that too, because with zotfile I not only rename the files, but also the subfolders where to save them. That allows me to have a logical-organizational structure of the DB.

Just curious — will the renaming features in Zotero 7 be as robust as Zotfile's?

@reillyperovich you didn't say how you attempted to transition to linked files. Did you use Zotfile to move the PDFs to your cloud OneDrive folder (which updates their location in the Zotero database)

Zotero 6 use ZotFile http://zotfile.com/

I have kept papers2 going until recently. Why? It was the only system that let me manage my PDF storage totally openly and how I wanted (like Zotero and Zotfile, I now know!). it was time to switch bu

After much discussion*, it appears that most other Zotfile functionality will be available in Zotero v7 (which is yet to be released; currently in beta) via a new addon, zotero-file. But tablet sync i

This should enable me to manage switching between desktop and iOS. But, based on a quick scan of the other forums, ZotFile may not have the same functionality with Zotero 7?

To be clear, this is in the Tools menu. It's not the similarly named ZotFile context-menu option.

So an argument that those titles used by Zotero are clearly more meaningful than having the title match the actual renamed filename (Zotfile-style) is somewhat tenuous

As to what the "whole" thread was about, it has obviously meandered. The OP's issue was basically why Zotero v7 no longer appeared to reflect what was actually a Zotfile operation (which does not run

Zotero; Mdnotes for Zotero; Zotero Better Notes; ZotFile; and Zutilo Utility for Zotero. I disabled the Add-ons but it has not resolved the issue. I export the file to Obsidian and am unable to add

But I will try turning Zotfile's renaming off and see if the alternative makes sense.