{"id":1104,"date":"2020-12-14T00:18:54","date_gmt":"2020-12-13T16:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yohz.com\/blogs\/?p=1104"},"modified":"2020-12-15T20:39:05","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T12:39:05","slug":"easy-pdf-search-updating-the-pdf-file-locations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yohz.com\/blogs\/2020\/12\/14\/easy-pdf-search-updating-the-pdf-file-locations\/","title":{"rendered":"Easy PDF Search &#8211; updating the PDF file locations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may sometimes move your PDF files to another folder, and you don&#8217;t want to have to re-index all the files again in Easy PDF Search.<\/p>\n<p>For e.g. you may have one or more libraries that indexes the files in <strong>g:\\pdflib\\<\/strong>.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s say you&#8217;ve now moved all the PDF files to a larger drive, say <strong>h:\\pdfs\\<\/strong>.\u00a0 If you don&#8217;t want to have to reindex all the files again, do this.<\/p>\n<p>Select the <strong>Tools &gt; Manage library paths<\/strong> item from the main menu.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1105\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yohz.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/epsmove06.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"402\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yohz.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/epsmove06.png 402w, https:\/\/www.yohz.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/epsmove06-300x158.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 402px) 100vw, 402px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Easy PDF Search then displays the list of libraries and the paths associated with each library.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1106\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yohz.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/epsmove07.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"712\" height=\"541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yohz.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/epsmove07.png 712w, https:\/\/www.yohz.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/epsmove07-300x228.png 300w, https:\/\/www.yohz.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/epsmove07-624x474.png 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 712px) 100vw, 712px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As our PDF files have moved from <strong>g:\\pdflib\\<\/strong> to <strong>h:\\pdfs\\<\/strong>, we need to make the change to our libraries&#8217; paths.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1108\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yohz.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/epsmove09.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"712\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yohz.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/epsmove09.png 712w, https:\/\/www.yohz.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/epsmove09-300x118.png 300w, https:\/\/www.yohz.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/epsmove09-624x246.png 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 712px) 100vw, 712px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Once you save the new values, DICOM Search will update all the details of the indexed files accordingly, so files previously indexed in <strong>g:\\pdflib\\<\/strong> will have their source locations updated to <strong>h:\\pdfs\\<\/strong>, if they now exist in <strong>h:\\pdfs\\<\/strong>.\u00a0 The search path for the libraries will also be updated.<\/p>\n<p>In this way, you do not need to reindex all the files that you have moved.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.yohz.com\/blogs\/2020\/12\/14\/easy-pdf-search-updating-the-pdf-file-locations\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"button\"  size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"fb-share-button  \" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.yohz.com\/blogs\/2020\/12\/14\/easy-pdf-search-updating-the-pdf-file-locations\/\" data-type=\"button\" data-size=\"small\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may sometimes move your PDF files to another folder, and you don&#8217;t want to have to re-index all the files again in Easy PDF Search. 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