wileyyugioh / zotmoov

Zotero plugin to automatically move attachments and link them
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Is there a way to "retrieve" a file back to my Zotero? #35

Open newterritories opened 3 months ago

newterritories commented 3 months ago

Hi, I just upgraded to Zotero 7 and was sorry to see Zotfile is discontinued, so was keen to test out Zotmoov as a replacement. I've added the Zotmoov plugin, and see that I can select a file and "Move to Selected Directory", which is useful - but is there any way to "retrieve" that file document once I've finished reading it and it gets added back to the right location within my Zotero library, and adds a note of the annotations I made on the document? This was a wonderful feature of Zotfile, so really hoping I can replicate that workflow here. Is the main workaround just to do it manually? Thanks, Samantha

jryans commented 3 months ago

To move a file back to your local storage, you can use Tools menu -> Manage Attachments -> Convert Linked Files to Stored Files. Only selected files will be converted. I would also like to see a more natural option in the right-click menu, so perhaps @wileyyugioh will consider this issue as another vote for such a feature.

As for annotations, there’s no extraction to a note currently, but all the annotations of course remain accessible in Zotero’s reader.

wileyyugioh commented 3 months ago

I added this feature to the latest pre-release. Let me know if there are any problems with it.

TW96 commented 3 months ago

I believe that @newterritories is talking more broadly about Zotfile's Send to Tablet feature.

jryans commented 3 months ago

The new right-click "Convert Linked Files to Stored Files" seems to do the right thing, thanks for adding it. 😄

Although I know the name matches the built-in Zotero function you're invoking, I wonder if it would make sense to give the right-click menu item a better name in the context of Zotmoov...? For example, it could say "Move Selected from Directory", since it essentially does the opposite of the existing "Move Selected to Directory".

wileyyugioh commented 3 months ago

I updated the wording in the latest pre-release.

And yes, jryan's reply is probably the best bet for getting the previous Move to Tablet functionality. The next release will have a menu item to make converting the files easier.

To move a file back to your local storage, you can use Tools menu -> Manage Attachments -> Convert Linked Files to Stored Files. Only selected files will be converted. I would also like to see a more natural option in the right-click menu, so perhaps @wileyyugioh will consider this issue as another vote for such a feature.

As for annotations, there’s no extraction to a note currently, but all the annotations of course remain accessible in Zotero’s reader.

While ZotMoov has a lot of functionalities of ZotFile, it is not meant to be a complete clone. I want to keep it focused on the file moving aspect of ZotFile, so extracting the annotations to a Zotero note is unlikely to be a feature in the future.

newterritories commented 3 months ago

Hi @wileyyugioh , thanks for all the information and totally understand to just prioritize the file-moving functionality of Zotfile (not other things like extracting-annotations-to-note), and really appreciate it. One quick question just in case you have advice on this or anyone else does:

wileyyugioh commented 3 months ago

Probably the official ZotFile-Recovery plugin.

wileyyugioh commented 1 week ago

The latest beta version's custom menu items enables users to replicate the Send to Tablet feature from Zotfile.