Files remain on the harddrive

[adeldaoud]

Hi! I tried delitemwithatt, and it removes the attachment in Zotero but the files remain on the harddrive. That defeats the purpose of this plugin. Is this a bug perhaps?

[redleafnew]

Do you use the context menu in this plugin?

[adeldaoud]

Yes, I deleted the html folder attachment from there, but the folder remains. Is there a difference between file and a folder attachment perhaps? Sent from Outlook for iOS<https://aka.ms/o0ukef>

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[redleafnew]

The folder deletion has been considered, and did not added in the plugin in case of there were more than one files in the folder.

[redleafnew]

And you can scan and delete the empty folder with other application if there is only one file in the folder.

[adeldaoud]

I see. It would be very useful to delete folders as well, as HTML items will be saved in a folder with multiple files. Those multiple fiels are the ones that are hardest to get rid off manually. Would it be possible to add that feature of deleting a folder? It would be very very useful.

[redleafnew]

It will not happen in the near future, sorry. For the HTML items, they could be saved as single web page file with mhtml as the extenstion.

[adeldaoud]

Good idea reagrding the mhtml. Sorry to hear that it will not be supported any time soon. Incidentally, do you have a suggestion for how I can get rid of those specific folders from Zotero and my harddrive in a batch operation?

Zotero creates those folders for HTML attachments from the past, containing multiple files. I really would like to batch delete all items with HTML folders. I am setting up a sync folder solution on Onedrirve, according to Zotero instructions of splitting the database and attached files. However, having a myriad of tiny files is creating issues for OneDrive

[redleafnew]

After searching, the script was found, however, I did not try it.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20080417-00/?p=22703

[adeldaoud]

Thanks for the tip. However, the Zotero storage folders I am referring to are not empty. They live in the Zotero storage folder like so, and wondering if those can be deleted, for the ones with HMTL files.

[redleafnew]

You could use ZotFile, move the attachments to another folder, then the attachnents with items will be moved the folder, and the orphan attachments will not.

[dstillman]

@redleafnew: This is just a misunderstanding on @adeldaoud's part:

https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/comment/422179/#Comment_422179