I should have known better :-) I have posted something similar in the ZotFile thread, hoping it's OK to do so...

Further to my comment in the General thread (advanced attachment renaming: ZotFile alternative), I would like to suggest the following changes:

@bothide: To be clear, I'm _not_ the ZotFile developer (Joscha). Please post these suggestions in the ZotFile thread.

1. Add a "ZotFile" submenu in the menu that pops up when an item in the Zotero item pane is right-clicked. This submenu should contain the "Attach New File" and "Manage Attachments" buttons/links (an

I have added short title as a wildcard. The wildcard is %h (the actual letter used for the wildcard are pretty abitrary by now). I recommend that you use it with the new exclusive wildcards like this…

a colon (:) in the title. In the same way, Zotfile truncates the title when there's a colon.

ZotFile's next version (2.3) adds two additional wild-cards for author initials (%I) and pages (%f), amongst other changes...

Are you aware that you can change in the ZotFile prefs the "Maximum length of the title" ("Renaming rule" tab)? That does not address your issue though.

I find Zotfile very usefull, and the new renaming rules are almost perfect.But, for books with long title, or beginning with a "the" "On" "Le" etc, if the title is limited to 10-15 letters, the name o

I see. Well at least it is part of the problem: I installed it and the problem appeared. I uninstalled it and the problem disappeared. There was nothing else done in between. I have quite a few plug-i

Tschoepler,I can't reproduce that problem (same OS, same version) and I don't think zotfile is the problem...

Zotfile prevents my Firefox from opening the tab-groups (cmd + shift + E). Even when deactivated it would do so; I had to uninstall the plugin completely to get that functionality to work again. I am

Chell, missing spaces between words is a problem with certain PDF files in the pdf.js based extraction method. A lot of files won't have that problem. The poppler based extraction (mac only) is bette…

I just started to use zotero + zotfile two days ago and I'm happy! (I even switched to firefox, because it's such a killer app, after having used konqueror for some 10 years!)

that couldn't be opened.) I haven't downloaded Zotfile yet so I'll have to try that one of these days.

(and in the next ZotFile version, it will be possible to refuse automatic renaming if multiple attachments exist) Cf. https://github.com/jlegewie/zotfile#changes-in-23 four options: Never, Always ask,

I'd really like to use Zotfile, however I cannot get it work. I want to have files stored in a defined folder (inside my Dropbox) and configured that in the zotfile options.

(first manually, but I just started using zotfile), and I don't see any way to give them distinguishing titles--they all get named "[authors] [year] [title]" (w/ details filled in, of course :) )<br

Use zotfile for that

Not that I know of, unfortunately at least not natively. (I'm not aware of any other way either, but maybe one of the plugins - Zutilo/Zotfile maybe? - can be made to do this).