It is however perfectly possible to save epubs in Zotero and send it with Zotfile to tablet and read in prefered ereader, same situation that worked for pdf for many years. But of course, Zotfile will

In my humble opinion, it is unlikely that you'll find an alternative that solves the particular problems you mention — i.e., PDF and metadata management. If Zotero's translators and Zotfile don't work

the PDF manually and import it into Zotero. The Zotfile plugin just isn't good enough: it doesn't work for manually imported PDFs and rarely works when I use the Zotero connector. All in all, this me

Zotfile Version: 5.12

I try to use the following link to open a pdf attachment in Zotero but it is not responsive.

I have a quick question. I am using Zotero on my MacBook and using Zotfile to store the pdfs in Onedrive. Is the current iOS version (for iPad) of Zotero supports that? Sorry if this is totally out of

I dug through the documentation and settings for Zotfile but didn't find anything. I also happily work with symbolic links.

You have to use "Save Link As…" in Firefox. See the instructions on the ZotFile page.

I am not able to download the zotfile xpi-file. My computer tells me that the file is damaged.

So, all my attached PDFs are stored in Google Drive via Zotfile. When using Adobe Acrobat to read them, all the links within the files are pointing to "https://www.zotero.org/google-docs/?eIY5JJ", as

2b) right, if you manually download the PDF anyway, there's no limitation of ZotFile. But if you use the web connector with automatic PDF download enabled, ZotFile moves and renames the PDF automatica

2b) not sure I understand ZotFile's limitation. I have made some trials: after I have captured the item through web-connector, manually downloaded the pdf, I attach the pdf as a link file. Zot file as

2b) For the first part, see above. ZotFile is the way to go, but not that with what should normally be the standard way of adding items to Zotero, i.e. via the web connector, ZotFile will automaticall

through the link to file option? Currently, with Zotfile, I download the pdf on, say, the desktop, attach it to a Zotero item, clic on the pop up and have Zotfile rename and move it to the main folde

Zutilo Utility for Zotero (3.10.0, extension), ZotFile (5.1.2, extension), Zotero LibreOffice Integration (6.0.3.SA.6.0.18, extension), Zotero Word for Windows Integration (6.0.2.SA.6.0.18, extension

because I hadn't registered the reference to Zotfile as a suggestion for the specific problem of managing the citations of existing PDFs. The Zotfile suggestion seemed to be about renaming files, not

As explained on Stored Files and Linked Files, we don't recommend linked files for most people, and most people who use linked files use ZotFile, so we're certainly not going to add a prompt on every

Thank you for pointing out the plugin and Zotfile extension. I haven't looked into the Zotfile extension yet; it didn't seem to me to be particularly necessary for what I wanted to do. The future feat

Also note that most people who use a linked-file workflow use the ZotFile extension, as mentioned in Stored Files and Linked Files, rather than linking existing files manually. You can also configure

I set up my Zotfile by following the instruction here: https://habr.com/en/post/443798/