Keep Folder Structure for Zotero
StRuoff opened this issue · comments
After I was able to pull all the Highlighting and Folders with the pdfs from Mendeley, I wanted to export it to Zotero.
I did so by .ris and .bib files and Zotero found all the data (pdfs, comments, highlights). But I just got one big collection (as "folders" are called in Zotero).
Maybe I missed it (after reading all Info about Menotexport), but it seems as Zotero is not able to read the {folder} tag from the bib/ris file to create a new collection.
Is this feature in menotexport or does Zotero just not support such kind of importing bib/ris files?
Hi,
I can't tell you now. Give me a couple of days and let me test it out. Thanks for the input!
Hi,
I also think keeping the folder structure is very important. I used the GUI tool to export and after importing into zotero the folder structure got lost. Hope you can solve this problem.
Thanks for your work!
Geez I completely forgot about this. Will have a look and see what I can do
Hi both, a quick update:
I was informed by the Zotero people that this is possible, but that would require a different format of the exported bibliography data other than .bib or .ris.. I need bit more time to learn this new format, and test it out first, so a tedious workaround for now is
- export the sub-folders (SubFolder1, SubFolder2, SubFolder3 ...) separately of a parent folder (e.g. ParentFolder1) in Mendeley
- import the subfolders to Zotero
- Create the parent folder ParentFolder1 by hand in Zotero
- Drag n drop the imported subfolders (called collections following Zotero's naming) under ParentFolder1, so you get the original structure.
This is apparently not ideal, and I will try to add the supported format to easy it.