On 14. okt. 2011 20:17, Sølvi wrote:
ANYONE??
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From: *Sølvi* <s.n.mi...@gmail.com <mailto:s.n.mi...@gmail.com>>
Date: 2011/10/11
Subject: Move from d:drive to c:drive
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org <mailto:lyx-users@lists.lyx.org>
Hi,
I'm currently using Windows XP with LyX v.2.0.0
I have a huge document, it's a master with several child documents
included which then again have documents/figures etc inserted (it's like
a christmas tree). I have been working on the d: drive on a pc but now I
have to work on a pc that only have a c: drive and I probably have to
move it all back to the pc with the d: drive later.
Is there any easy way to do this or do I have to "rebuild" the entire
document? It's a big document with lots of files incorporated.
Easy way:
Put the entire "christmas tree" on an usb stick or external harddisk,
which will hopefully become "d:" on the machine that doesn't have a "d:"
of its own.
A better way:
"Rebuild"! you document - once. You need to visit every reference to
other files, be it included documents or figures.
Change the filenames from "absolute" to "relative" Example:
Master document at d:\documents\book\master.lyx,
includes:
d:\documents\book\chapter1\chapter1.lyx
d:\documents\book\chapter2\chapter2.lyx
which includes
d:\documents\chapter2\figures\picture.jpg
d:\documents\book\logo.png
with this structure, it should be change to relative
paths, removing the common path elements. The result would be:
Master document at d:\documents\book\master.lyx
including:
chapter1\chapter1.lyx
chapter2\chapter2.lyx
which includes:
figures\picture.jpg
..\logo.png
And when you add more files later, make sure they
don't contain "d:\..", just the last and necessary parts of the path.
This gives a combined document tree that doesn't say "D:" anywhwere, so
it'll work equally well on C:, on D: or for that matter, somewhere on a
big file server. In short, it'll be moveable because it does not refer
to one specific disk drive.
Helge Hafting
