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fonol / anki-search-inside-add-card

An add-on providing full-text-search and PDF reading functionality to Anki's Add card dialog
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How to migrate to a new computer? #202

Closed XDitto0165 closed 3 years ago

XDitto0165 commented 3 years ago

How to migrate all the data of this add-on, including the PDF files and the queue, to a new computer? A walkthrough on this would be appreciated!

fonol commented 3 years ago

Hi, the queue data is stored in the siac-notes.db file, whose location you can see under Settings & Info -> Info -> Path to Note DB. I would generally do it like that:

  1. Copy the add-on's folder from your old machine to Anki's add-on folder on your new machine.
  2. Start Anki, check what it says on the above given location about your siac-notes.db file, then go to that folder, and replace the new, empty siac-notes.db with the one from your old pc.
  3. For PDFs whose paths might be different on your machine, there is no automatic solution, I guess you'd have to manually update their source field to have the correct path on your new PC.
XDitto0165 commented 3 years ago

Hi, the queue data is stored in the siac-notes.db file, whose location you can see under Settings & Info -> Info -> Path to Note DB. I would generally do it like that:

  1. Copy the add-on's folder from your old machine to Anki's add-on folder on your new machine.
  2. Start Anki, check what it says on the above given location about your siac-notes.db file, then go to that folder, and replace the new, empty siac-notes.db with the one from your old pc.
  3. For PDFs whose paths might be different on your machine, there is no automatic solution, I guess you'd have to manually update their source field to have the correct path on your new PC.

Thanks for the reply! Can you further elaborate on step 3 on where can I update the source field of the PDF file? Do I need to update the path of each PDF one by one? Or is there a place I can update the folder path?

fonol commented 3 years ago

Yea, I mean there is no way for the add-on to know where these files are located on your new computer. If you click on PDFs in the add-on's sidebar, you get a card with some filtering options, there is also the option to Find Invalid Paths, which will present you all the notes whose Source field contains a path to a pdf file that couldn't be resolved on your new computer. You'd have to edit these (via the pen icon) and put the correct path to the pdf in the source field again, one by one. Hope that helps!