Third Street Software Forums: moving from Zotero to Sente with PDF links intact

I'm considering moving from Zotero (1.0.6) to Sente for the sake of citation support in Pages '08. Most of the references in my Zotero library are linked to PDFs on my hard drive, but those links are destroyed in the process of importing the library to Sente (Zotero: export references as RIS; Sente: File > Import... > foo.ris). Is there a way to repair those links automatically?

I've tried Edit > Perform > Locate full text locally using Spotlight, but this is really slow, often fails, and so far as I can tell has to be done by hand for each reference. Oof. (There's no sign of the Sente Applescript library in my Script Editor; would that appear if I bought a license?) It looks like there are two other alternatives in theory---either drag the appropriate PDF onto a reference, or use File > Import and let Sente find the citation info. Neither route works consistently for me. A repetitive stress injury rules out *any* amount of drag-and-drop work (let alone ~1000 repetitive drags-and-drops). The citation-finding, while often impressive, is sometimes completely wrong, with no chance for the user to veto the purported match (e.g., I've got a paper by X, which I'd like to link to the existing reference to X, but which Sente determines is actually the completely unrelated Y---and before I can say otherwise, the Y reference has been imported and linked to the X PDF). Even when Sente does find the right reference, it imports a new copy of the reference rather than linking the PDF to the reference already present in my library.

It seems to me that a few basic functionalities are just missing:

- batch processing of imported PDFs;
- keyboard alternatives to drag-and-drop actions; and
- an extra item in the contextual menu that comes up when you click on a reference in your library: "Link to PDF...".

I want very much to like Sente. The idea is great, the look is great, the incorporation of Safari ought to be incredibly powerful, the Pages support is key... please tell me it's not going to take days of dedicated and literally painful work to start using it in earnest.

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