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A time to use linked attachments, even if you have unlimited storage
I am new to unlimited storage in Zotero, having used linked attachments exclusively for seventeen years prior. I am LOVING the time-saving power of embedding, rather than linking, attachments. However, I've learned that there are some files better left linked. If you are, for example, working on a PowerPoint presentation, and opening it at work then later at home, it really needs to be kept in external cloud storage. Here's the issue. You can open Zotero and open an embedded PowerPoint document from within it. Sometime in the hours you're working on the presentation, you might close Zotero, which will be its last time to sync your work. Meanwhile, you continue to work on it in PowerPoint, then save and close it. Tomorrow, you open it at the other location. But you're opening an older version. It will tend to create corruptions. If you only use one computer, you experience fewer problems. But, Zotero's development manager recommends that documents that are still being actively changed by external software like this should be left outside the database and linked to.
