version => 6.0.26, platform => MacIntel, oscpu => Intel Mac OS X 10.16, locale => en-GB, appName => Zotero, appVersion => 6.0.26, extensions => Zutilo Utility for Zotero (3.10.0, extension), ZotFile (

ZotFile has to be disabled to import, since it breaks file importing. You can reenable it after if you want.

I switched from Mendeley to Zotero, but I only have one project in Zotero. I use Zotfile to put all PDFs in a collections/author_date_title hierarchy on OneDrive. I just learned that I can import up m

Various guides suggested using zotfile. Zotfile is not actively maintained, and in coming zotero 7's API breaking change will definitely break things.

I have hundreds of papers in Zotero 6. After I upgrade to Zotero 7, I find there is a built-in file renaming feature in Zotero 7 like Zotfile. So how do I apply my renaming rule to the existing files?

The version of Zotero I am using is. 6.0.26. and ZotFile 5.1.2.

Which versions of Zotero and Zotfile are you using ?

I have tried linking Zotero to a newly created folder at OneDrive by using ZotFile. Through ZotFile preference, I changed "Location of Files" to my new OneDrive folder.

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/