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Trying to get this up and working - have installed homebrew and pdfannots2json, re-exported a Zotero library via BetterBibTex, and am getting a mkdir error after choosing a PDF and pasting in the citekey manually.

 

I'm not sure quite where the read-only directory is becomming an issue. My Zotero library is stored locally, but as "linked" files, not in the Zotero file structure.

 

Running: 

Alfred 5.0.3

PDF Annotation Extractor 7.0.6

MacOS 12.6

pdfannots2json version 1.0.12

 

Thanks.

 

Trying to get this up and working - have installed homebrew and pdfannots2json, re-exported a Zotero library via BetterBibTex, and am getting a mkdir error after choosing a PDF and pasting in the citekey manually.

I'm not sure quite where the read-only directory is becomming an issue. My Zotero library is stored locally, but as "linked" files, not in the Zotero file structure.

[12:04:17.409] Logging Started...
[12:04:21.628] PDF Annotation Extractor[File Filter] Processing complete
[12:04:21.630] PDF Annotation Extractor[File Filter] Passing output '/Users/REDACTED/Box Sync/2022/Garnett - 2020 - The Preservation of the Sources for English Mediev.pdf' to Arg and Vars
[12:04:21.631] PDF Annotation Extractor[Arg and Vars] Processing complete
[12:04:21.632] PDF Annotation Extractor[Arg and Vars] Passing output '/Users/REDACTED/Box Sync/2022/Garnett - 2020 - The Preservation of the Sources for English Mediev.pdf' to Conditional
[12:04:21.632] PDF Annotation Extractor[Conditional] Processing complete
[12:04:21.633] PDF Annotation Extractor[Conditional] Passing output '/Users/REDACTED/Box Sync/2022/Garnett - 2020 - The Preservation of the Sources for English Mediev.pdf' to Arg and Vars
[12:04:21.633] PDF Annotation Extractor[Arg and Vars] Processing complete
[12:04:21.634] PDF Annotation Extractor[Arg and Vars] Passing output '' to Keyword
[12:04:24.625] PDF Annotation Extractor[Keyword] Processing complete
[12:04:24.626] PDF Annotation Extractor[Keyword] Passing output 'garnettPreservationSourcesEnglish2020' to Replace
[12:04:24.630] PDF Annotation Extractor[Replace] Processing complete
[12:04:24.631] PDF Annotation Extractor[Replace] Passing output 'garnettPreservationSourcesEnglish2020' to Arg and Vars
[12:04:24.631] PDF Annotation Extractor[Arg and Vars] Processing complete
[12:04:24.632] PDF Annotation Extractor[Arg and Vars] Passing output '/Users/matthew/Box Sync/2022/Garnett - 2020 - The Preservation of the Sources for English Mediev.pdf' to Run Script
[12:04:24.888] PDF Annotation Extractor[Run Script] Processing complete
[12:04:24.889] PDF Annotation Extractor[Run Script] Passing output '286;;The Preservation of the Sources for English Medieval History in the Sixteenth Century;;;;Garnett, George;;2020;;inbook;;https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198726166.003.0009
' to Conditional
[12:04:24.890] PDF Annotation Extractor[Conditional] Processing complete
[12:04:24.890] PDF Annotation Extractor[Conditional] Passing output '286;;The Preservation of the Sources for English Medieval History in the Sixteenth Century;;;;Garnett, George;;2020;;inbook;;https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198726166.003.0009
' to Split Arg
[12:04:24.891] PDF Annotation Extractor[Split Arg] Processing complete
[12:04:24.891] PDF Annotation Extractor[Split Arg] Passing output '286;;The Preservation of the Sources for English Medieval History in the Sixteenth Century;;;;Garnett, George;;2020;;inbook;;https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198726166.003.0009
' to Arg and Vars
[12:04:24.892] PDF Annotation Extractor[Arg and Vars] Processing complete
[12:04:24.892] PDF Annotation Extractor[Arg and Vars] Passing output '286' to Conditional
[12:04:24.893] PDF Annotation Extractor[Conditional] Processing complete
[12:04:24.893] PDF Annotation Extractor[Conditional] Passing output '286' to Arg and Vars
[12:04:24.894] PDF Annotation Extractor[Arg and Vars] Processing complete
[12:04:24.894] PDF Annotation Extractor[Arg and Vars] Passing output '286' to Post Notification
[12:04:24.895] PDF Annotation Extractor Processing complete
[12:04:24.895] PDF Annotation Extractor Passing output '286' to Hide Alfred
[12:04:24.909] PDF Annotation Extractor[Arg and Vars] Passing output '286' to Run Script
[12:04:24.910] ERROR: PDF Annotation Extractor[Run Script] mkdir: /attachments: Read-only file system
[12:04:24.910] PDF Annotation Extractor[Run Script] Processing complete
[12:04:24.911] PDF Annotation Extractor[Run Script] Passing output '' to Conditional
[12:04:24.911] PDF Annotation Extractor[Conditional] Processing complete
[12:04:24.912] PDF Annotation Extractor[Conditional] Passing output '' to Post Notification
[12:04:24.913] PDF Annotation Extractor Processing complete
[12:04:24.913] PDF Annotation Extractor Passing output '' to Play Sound

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OK, that was helpful to know. Thanks. Using the "save to Obsidian" option at least let me specify a finder destination, which resolved the write error which was stopping the workflow.

 

I had tried posting on GitHub, but the issue was closed there, with the dev saying "use the bug report form", which I had thought was here.

 

All good - thanks, as always, for the assistance.

 

 

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