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Tutorial to import custom Bibles in ProPresenter
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New folder is created every restart #17

Closed PA7RIK closed 5 months ago

PA7RIK commented 5 months ago

A new folder with uuid is created every time I restart ProPresenter. eg. 5f1bb711-2dcf-48a3-88b6-9f42ad715856 in here: %programdata%\RenewedVision\ProPresenter\Bibles It's like sideloading the custom bible at every startup. Is this normal operation?

martijnlentink commented 5 months ago

That is indeed the behaviour of sideload bibles on Windows. On Mac this does not happen.

This is far from optimal, the only alternative I can think of is overwriting a free bible from the bible store. I could look into that to prevent HDD memory leakage.

PA7RIK commented 5 months ago

Thanks for your quick response and your work on the bible converter.

PA7RIK commented 5 months ago

I tried to overwrite the custom bible on a free downloaded bible and it didn't work. I tried to download a free bible and then overwrite it with the files of another free bible. This was successful by modifying BibleData.proPref. I noticed that the new free bibles are using "usx version="3.0"" and the custom bible uses 2.0. This could be the problem. Do you have any idea?

martijnlentink commented 5 months ago

The fact that the USX formats are different should not cause the issue. I've actually once replaced a SQL based bible with USX without a problem.

I've made it work before I found out that sideloading was possible. It should work if you leave the BibleData.proPref untouched and change the USX files. I can't recall what the exact requirements were for it to work but my guess is that it worked if you changed the contents of the folder. As you can see the history of my repository it was actually my first approach as well https://github.com/martijnlentink/propresenter-custom-bibles/tree/15bb0dd4184a703d03725cd528f3e90cbcb9248c?tab=readme-ov-file#how-does-this-work

martijnlentink commented 5 months ago

Also I think it is important to delete the sideload directory for this to work.

martijnlentink commented 5 months ago

Okay I just checked what the process was. It is as follows:

  1. Install a free bible
  2. Remove the contents of the folder
  3. Move the contents of the new bible to that folder
  4. Adjust the rvmetadata.xml file such that the abbreviation tag matches the original free bible. And introduce a new tag displayAbbreviation which should be set to the actual new bibles abbreviation.
<abbreviation>BB</abbreviation>
  <displayAbbreviation>EBV24</displayAbbreviation>

Hope this works for you!

PA7RIK commented 5 months ago

Thank you very much, your method works! I didn't think that the abbreviation tag was checked by ProPresenter.