On Mon, 8 Mar 2004 08:02:16 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do you have an older version to export the records from? If so, simply export
a backup, close the old version, open the new one and import. If you do
cannot do this, you will need to create new entries and populate them with your
assortment of tidbits, scripts etc.
- no, I think I said, I never used the product before, so I have to populate it from scratch.
>I >want to import scripts, stacks and text files that I've already collected. >Clearly this is possible, even so easy that it doesn't need explaining >except to the GUI-challenged, but there it is.
Like any database, the first job is to set up the records. The simplest way is as above.
Well, it took me some time to notice 'New' - it was in the toolbar and in the 'Entries' menu but not in the 'File' menu. Dumb of me not to notice - sorry. I guess I was thinking you just import the objects you want to store: I thought of them as being text essentially (I still do; but with the addition of links).
>I also so far I haven't developed a mental model of what the scrapbook >is - a collection of cross-linked files, a database that points to files, files >converted to special format, files in their original form, etc?
Yes. Basically that's it. A flexible way to store information and access useful files.
So, it's all these things? I imagine that this means that text entries are **really** in the database, and attachments are somewhere else. When an attachment is attached, is this an imported copy of the file? I have assumed that is the case. (BTW I note that there is no indication that there is an attachment to an entry, but you can find out by looking in the 'Files' dropdown: is this right?)
It was requested that the Scrapbook be delivered as a standard, toplevel
window. This means that it will behave as you describe it. It seems, with
hindsight, that the original 'modeless' window would be more appropriate to avoid this
confusion. A revised version will be uploaded today.
So the new version won't ask me to save itself... after I'd written my original message I realised that I could have avoided the problem by using the standalone version of the product, but I will be happier to use the plugin, so I'll look for the download.
Hope this helps.
Yes... I guess what I needed to launch my work was a statement like "this is really a database, so you need records: this is how to create your first one." And I got that from your message, so I can take things from here.
Thanks again for the quick reply.
Graham
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Graham Samuel / The Living Fossil Co. / UK & France
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