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[Alessandro Magni <magni@xxxxxxxx>]

 Hi Thosrsten,
thanks for the input!

It is great news for me that it is possible to have zim-files 
disseminated around the filesystem...
unfortunately I believed it impossible, so I already wrote down my 
crawler program that puts all the files in a unique directory.
It is still a bit rough, but I hope to have it polished in a few days - 
if it could interest anybody I'll gladly post it here.
What worries me about your approach is that it involves changing the Zim 
program itself, so I fear it could result incompatible in the event of a 
Zim upgrade - unless the developers hear our call for help and make it 
available as an option in the program itself.
If I may ask, are you using this trick for my same need (i.e. to have an 
hypertext self-commenting directory structure)?

thanks!

alessandro
> Am Montag, den 20.09.2010, 16:51 +0200 schrieb Jaap Karssenberg:
> >  On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Alessandro Magni<magni@xxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> >  >  Thank you for your help!
> >  >
> >  >  I want to ask a further question, though I fear the answer will be no:
> >  >  since the files we are mentioning should be one related to each folder, my
> >  >  ideal situation would be to have one of those positioned at each folder.
> >  >  I fear for now Zim keeps them instead positioned in one unique root folder -
> >  >  there is some workaround possible?
>
> I had the same problem here and I simply made 3 changes in
> zim/stores/files.py
>
> add at beginning of file:
> import os
>
> line 53:
> old:
> filepath = encode_filename(name)+'.txt' # FIXME hard coded extension
> new:
> filepath = encode_filename(name)+'.'+os.sep+'README.txt' # dirty hack
>
> line 83:
> old:
> elif file.endswith('.txt'): # TODO: do not hard code extension
> new:
> elif file.endswith('.'+os.sep+'README.txt'): # dirty hack
> 			
> Now  all my page contend is stored in the files "README.txt" in
> directories named after the pages.
>
> Maybe you will get Problems when renaming pages...
>
> I tried to create my own zim/stores/filesindirs.py with a configurable
> file name, but it looks like there is no way to tell zim to use the new
> storage(?).
>
>
> regards

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