jlegewie/zotfile

Create symbolic/hard links for collections of item

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#112 opened on Aug 8, 2013

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mronkko2 Joscha: Wouldn't what citizen_x do be possible in one of the two ways:

  1. Hard links
  2. Keep the file in the original directory, but create symbolic links based on collections

I am not saying that you should do this, and this is probably really confusing for users who do not know how links work.

I wrote a perl script to do the collection thing that citizen_x needs, but symbolic links are not very useful on network drives.

https://github.com/mronkko/BuildFolderStructureForZoteroItems/blob/master/BuildFolderStructureForZoteroItems.pl

https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/5301?page=15#Item_566

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Investigate Java's file system API for creating symbolic and hard links, and explore Zotero's plugin API to access item collections and file paths. Implement a new feature to allow users to create links for collections.
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java
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desktop
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