Sorry. After I reread the description of zotfile, I realized I had a misunderstanding about the use of zotfile. I thought zotfile could rename, move, and attach files in the zotero collection.

I think the source_dir option is not a good method. Why can't zotfile automatically find where the pdf file is?

I have a small enhancement proposal. The future versions of Zotfile could use Zotero functions to create the filenames instead of implementing another mechanism to determine the name for the PDF.<br /

mronkko: There are several people who have reported problems with the zotfile button. Your description is very helpful because it's easy to reproduce the bug. The problem is that my knowledge about th

I found a small bug in the plugin that causes the Zotfile button to disappear.

http://jlegewie.com/zotfile.html

This could be implemented as a zotero plugin (see for example zotfile-plugin)

Do you mid if I add this stuff to zotfile? I thought about providing two further options through about:config: a) whether people want to be ask for a confirmation and b) whether they want to link or a

The content of my modified zotfile.js can be found here

This can be fixed by changing line 182 of zotfile.js from

changed. That's also the reason why lytero and zotfile do not work together. So I can't really help. Maybe there is somebody around who knows something about this and is willing to look into this stu

Er, spoke too soon. After rebooting my machine and restarting Firefox, I've got no paper clip and can't access the ZotFile preferences in the Add-Ons menu (although ZotFile is visible there and appear

yusuf martin and adam.smith, can one of you send me an email (it's on the webpage) so that I can send you a test version of zotfile back. This version is only supposed to help me finding out where the

works for you. By the way, you should also see a zotfile entry at the button of the menu when you right click a zotero item.

There is no zotfile (paper-clip) button in between Add note and Handglass buttons in Zotero after instalation and restart, what could go wrong?

I downloaded Zotfile into Zotero 1.5b1, restarted Firefox 3.0.6, updated about:config settings to be (source_dir= /Users/Shared/JM Downloads) (dest_dir= /Users/Shared/JM Documents/Research/Downloaded

which version of Zotero are you using? I have never tried zotfile with 1.0 and I am pretty sure that it does not work with 1.0. If you are using 1.5, I can try to figure out what is going wrong but wo

FF 3.06, Ubuntu 8.10, database checked for integrity with no problems found, zotfile installed)

I tried zotfile on ubuntu 8.10 - everything works fine up to the last part - attaching the file - which simply doesn't happen. The correct file gets moved and renamed, but not attached.

http://www.columbia.edu/~jpl2136/zotfile.html