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[Jason McLafferty <jason.mclafferty@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Mariano,

I greatly appreciate your quick reply, however I am sad to report that my
links still do not work.  Any other suggestions I might try?  Thanks!

Jason

On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 8:05 AM, Mariano Draghi <mdraghi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> Hi Jason,
>
> The location of the XDG folders in Windows is a little bit weird... you
> should put your urls.list in the folder
> %APPDATA%/zim/data/zim
>
> i.e., there should be an extra "zim" folder inside "data". Weird, yes. But
> it works :)
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Mariano
>
>
>
>
>
> El vie., 23 de oct. de 2015 a la(s) 5:43 a. m., Jason McLafferty <
> jason.mclafferty@xxxxxxxxx> escribió:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am using Zim on Windows 7.  I am trying to add my Zim notebooks to the
>> urls.list file using the "zim+file://" method described here:
>>
>> http://zim-wiki.org/manual/Help/Config_Files.html
>>
>> I use ctrl+L to add a link to a notebook as name_of_notebook?, which
>> creates a link, but when I click on it, nothing happens.
>>
>> One thing I noticed when I was working through setting this up, is that
>> on my system, the directories APPDATA/zim/config and APPDATA/zim/data do
>> not exist (I checked where APPDATA is on my computer with cmd by typing cd
>> %appdata% and noting the new directory).  Not being sure if this is
>> significant or not, I did some poking around in Explorer and found the
>> following directory: C:\Users\Jason\.config\zim in which I find files like
>> preferences.conf and style.conf.  I tried putting my urls.list file,
>> containing all my notebooks and formatted as name-space-zim+file:// in both
>> of these directories (APPDATA/zim/data and C:\Users\Jason\.config\zim), but
>> still I do not get a working link.
>>
>> Any suggestions to where I am going wrong?
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Jason
>>
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