An Option to Rename PDFs and to Change their Location

[Mocabl3nd]

Hi! I'm new to Qiqqa and I find this app very useful for my thesis study. And for that, I'm really grateful for the developers to create this awesome app.

I have a few questions/suggestions that might be helpful for future use. Is there a way to change/rename the filename of the pdfs, whenever I store them in Qiqqa? The format could be like this: [Author (Year) Keywords] or any format will do. Just wanted an option to rename these pdfs, instead of this format:

Another suggestion that could be helpful is to have an option to transfer then to the desired folder and to be able to organize them by the author's name or year or publisher, etc. This could be great especially for organizing scientific articles and to store them to your own cloud drive (GDrive, MEGA, Dropbox, etc).

Thanks in advance!

PS. I am currently using Qiqqa version v.82s ( v.82.0.7357.40407s )

[GerHobbelt]

What you can use is the "export library" function in the toolbar of your library view: that should create a collection of pdfs named as you like.

The internal storage you screenshot is critical for qiqqa and those 'names' are unique hashes for fast and unique identification of each pdf with the database-stored metadata. (in other words: the "documents" directory tree inside your library folder is internal use for qiqqa.)

On Sun, Apr 19, 2020, 19:05 Mocabl3nd notifications@github.com wrote:

Hi! I'm new to Qiqqa and I find this app very useful for my thesis study. And for that, I'm really grateful for the developers to create this awesome app.

I have a few questions/suggestions that might be helpful for future use. Is there a way to change/rename the filename of the pdfs, whenever I store them in Qiqqa. The format could be like this: [Author (Year) Keywords] or any format will do. Just wanted an option to rename these pdfs, instead of this format:

[image: image] https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/42372285/79694226-9d61cf80-82a1-11ea-8786-87eab224af7f.png

Another suggestion that could be helpful is to have an option to transfer then to the desired folder and to be able to organize them by the author's name or year or publisher, etc. This could be great especially for organizing scientific articles and to store them to your own cloud drive (GDrive, MEGA, Dropbox, etc).

Thanks in advance!

PS. I am currently using Qiqqa version v.82s ( v.82.0.7357.40407s )

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[GerHobbelt]

Incidentally, as an alternative, would it work for you if Qiqqa offered these pdfs (with proper title, author, etc formatting) as viewable on a local machine website, i.e. the scenario where you view/browse these PDFs using Chrome or Firefox?

(technically that would be akin to the "export library" output without that export actually taking place and taking up extra disc space)

On Mon, Apr 20, 2020, 16:16 Ger Hobbelt ger@hobbelt.com wrote:

What you can use is the "export library" function in the toolbar of your library view: that should create a collection of pdfs named as you like.

The internal storage you screenshot is critical for qiqqa and those 'names' are unique hashes for fast and unique identification of each pdf with the database-stored metadata. (in other words: the "documents" directory tree inside your library folder is internal use for qiqqa.)

On Sun, Apr 19, 2020, 19:05 Mocabl3nd notifications@github.com wrote:

Hi! I'm new to Qiqqa and I find this app very useful for my thesis study. And for that, I'm really grateful for the developers to create this awesome app.

I have a few questions/suggestions that might be helpful for future use. Is there a way to change/rename the filename of the pdfs, whenever I store them in Qiqqa. The format could be like this: [Author (Year) Keywords] or any format will do. Just wanted an option to rename these pdfs, instead of this format:

[image: image] https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/42372285/79694226-9d61cf80-82a1-11ea-8786-87eab224af7f.png

Another suggestion that could be helpful is to have an option to transfer then to the desired folder and to be able to organize them by the author's name or year or publisher, etc. This could be great especially for organizing scientific articles and to store them to your own cloud drive (GDrive, MEGA, Dropbox, etc).

Thanks in advance!

PS. I am currently using Qiqqa version v.82s ( v.82.0.7357.40407s )

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[Mocabl3nd]

I seee. I'll consider your suggestions. Thank for the response!

[rdsteed]

A hard link can be created in Windows (at least when using an NTFS formatted partition). This allows a file to effectively have two names simultaneously, and the additional hard disk space would be minimal. The hardlinks could even be read to prevent updates under the the new name.

For example a PDF file could simultaneously be referenced as as C:\path...\11D62F4C5379FAF1563B3781B396C4FBE15AE80.pdf and C:\anotherPath...\FriendlyName.pdf .

It would be fairly straightforward (at least for a c# programmer) to write a routine to step through the library database file and create a new directory with friendly names for all of the pdf files based on info in the bibtex entries.

[GerHobbelt]

While this one is waiting for me to get other stuff done first, here's a mention of a tool and user process that might help you reduce total disk size used by all PDF copies floating around in your Watch Directories, Qiqqa libraries internally and possibly exported qiqqa library directories too:

https://github.com/jimmejardine/qiqqa-open-source/issues/311#issuecomment-807720144-permalink

Jump to the section with the header "Any way to reduce the disk storage size?" in there (sorry, no direct available in github)