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Requesting ability to merge scrapbook.rdf #16

Closed balbirthomas closed 5 years ago

balbirthomas commented 5 years ago

Firstly Thank you very much for picking up where scrapbook left off and creating a very useful alternative. Allowing people to migrate their scrapbook RDF files to scrapbee is a great feature.

At present one can have separate directories one for Scrapbee (with scrapbee.rdf) and another for Scrapbook (scrapbook.rdf). This works perfectly. Scrapbook is dead and the future is Scrapbee. So why bother having separate scrapbook.rdf and scrapbee.rdf. Can it be possible to combine them to a single scrapbee.rdf and a single "data" directory. If so, how ? If not please consider this in a future version?

Also the scrapbee.rdf file, formats all tags in a single line and if this is a very big file, most editors will crash trying to open it, even in read only mode. Is it possible to save it will new lines, tabs and such to make it pretty like scrapbook.rdf. I understand these files should never be edited but never the less it would be nice.

vctfence commented 5 years ago

Hi, thanks for discussion, the goal of enabling multi-rdfs is to make "books", so that you can have trees for different catalogue, such as "science", "movie", "learning"... and so on, this makes it clear (top level naivgation) and prevent making a single huge tree. If multi-rdfs are not needed, you can use one single rdf such as scrapbook.rdf, the one scrapbook left over, or make a new one.

And, I just released a tool named "Node Mover", you can move contents between 2 rdfs, so it's possible to merge multi-rdfs to be one, welcome to version 1.7.0.

vctfence commented 5 years ago

Another advantage of multi-rdfs is enabling user have rdfs distribute in different part of their storage, for example, different disk partition, to make more flexibility.

In fact, this is the main reason why backend is needed, because we need backend to access different part of storage under Firefox Quantum's permission limitation.

j1warren commented 5 years ago

vctfence Could you tell what functions the backend has? Is it only moving and accessing files on filesystem, or does it also access internet?

vctfence commented 5 years ago

@j1warren By now, only local file system, to overcome lack about FS of Firefox.