Navigate into where your storage folder is, synced over from Zotero PC. Now, again in Filza, look for, again under /var/mobile/Containers/Shared. You might want to quit Resilio afterwards. In the meantime, we sync our dummy file over to the iPad. Most of you probably already realized that Zotero PDF’s are kept in folders named with a hexadecimal string. Quit Zotero and rename this folder custom_my_library2. What we’ll see is a downloads folder with a custom_my_library folder, under which our Safari downloaded stuff gets populated. On iOS, using Filza, we navigate into the subfolders of .Zotero under /var/mobile/Containers/Shared (just search for zotero). On iOS, we add some PDF from the net using the share sheet. On PC, add a dummy folder and a dummy file in it to see where our file goes (user/Zotero/storage). On both PC and iOS Zotero, we continue using the data sync with Zotero but we need to disable WebDAV for file storage. This is what we’re going to use here again. On a different thread, I already hinted at using symlinks with the JB file manager app Filza. I am not going to waste time here on how to set up and link your devices (Resilio is also available to download/install on Linux as well as Windows, by the way) as there is plenty of official help available online. Here is where a jailbroken device comes in handy. Using a local sync sans a cloud storage provider is easy to set up with an Android tablet but well nigh impossible on iOS (as we all know from Obsidian note sync). First, I was thinking along the lines of rsync but I quickly moved on to settle on Resilio. Then one day I found time to look for a solution. Since Box.com discontinued support for WebDAV for good and Mega.io (MEGAcmd) seems difficult to set up (I’m not sure one can install all dependencies on the iOS terminal), I stopped using Zotero for a while. Many people who use Obsidian also use Zotero, which is especially useful on a tablet (I cannot read any text for long on a PC).
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