jlegewie/zotfile

Create symbolic/hard links for collections of item

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#112 opened on Aug 8, 2013

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Description

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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backendtooling
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Zotero plugin developmentJavaFile system operations
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Research direction
The issue requests implementing symbolic/hard links for collections of items in Zotero via the zotfile plugin. It references a forum discussion and a Perl script that does something similar. To proceed, one must understand Zotero's item storage and attachment handling, and how zotfile currently manages file organization. No assignees or PRs exist, and the issue has been dormant since 2013. Investigate the linked Perl script and the forum thread to clarify the exact desired behavior and feasibility.