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From: doltes <doltes512@gmail.com>
To: arozbiz@gmail.com
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How can I keep Org-id links from breaking when moving files?
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2021 13:32:56 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ft2wvktj.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJniy+MN110mwbd325he2DgZbgehSEzpZdfw0s+Fi_7oVASzBw@mail.gmail.com>


arozbiz@gmail.com writes:

> This question is in the context of using Org-id UUIDs for linking between
> files. If I understand correctly, Org-id knows where to look for UUIDs
> (generated by org-id-get-create) by looking at the org-id-locations
> variable. But what if I move an .org file that I've generated a UUID into
> another folder? I know I can run org-id-update-id-locations, and there's an
> org-id-extra-files variable, but is there a way to list all the folders on
> the system where Org-id should look for UUIDs?
>
> Thanks,
> Alan

After reading the docstring of the function
=org-id-update-id-locations=, I found that the files which are scanned
are defined by 6 variables.

The following was retrieved from the docstring

#+begin_quote
This will scan all agenda files, all associated archives, and all
files currently mentioned in ‘org-id-locations’.
#+end_quote

This implies that when that function is executed, the files whose
content is searched for IDs (i.e. they are scanned) are

+ The files mentioned in =org-agenda-files=.
+ The archives associated to the files in =org-agenda-files=.
+ The files mentioned in =org-id-locations=.
+ The files provided as arguments to the =org-id-update-id-locations=.

The following are not mentioned in the documentation of
=org-id-update-id-locations=, but when looking at the source code, you
can see that the value of the following variables is used

+ =org-id-extra-files=
+ =org-id-files=

As we could see, the files which are scanned are defined by 6 variables.

Now, apparently, you want to get a list of the files which are
scanned. You can do that by executing what
=org-id-update-id-locations= executes in order to get the list of
files to scan. The following was retrieved from that function with
some modifications

#+begin_src elisp :results output
(let ((files (delete-dups
	       (mapcar #'file-truename
		       (append
			(org-agenda-files t org-id-search-archives)
			(unless (symbolp org-id-extra-files)
			  org-id-extra-files)
			org-id-files)))))
  (dolist (file files) (princ (format "%s\n" file))))
#+end_src

#+RESULTS:
#+begin_example
/home/username/my/org/Statistics.org
/home/username/my/org/Programming languages/Elisp.org
/home/username/my/org/Programming languages/R.org
#+end_example

Hope that helps. Let me know if that answers your question.


  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-19 19:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-19  2:52 How can I keep Org-id links from breaking when moving files? arozbiz
2021-01-19 18:32 ` doltes [this message]
2021-01-20  0:13   ` Samuel Wales
2021-01-20 11:39     ` doltes
2021-01-21 13:14       ` arozbiz
2021-01-22 19:16         ` TRS-80

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