Change to a different RIMMF data folder

If you ever want to see a file of RIMMF records from someone else, or just create a separate file of your own (for some reason), you can, temporarily, change the data folder that RIMMF accesses to the folder of your choice. This way, you can maintain as many folders of RIMMF data as you want; just remember that you cannot link across these folders, so if you want to link to a record in one folder, from another folder, you must bring the record into the folder where you want the link to be made.

1. Go to Tools | Change data folder
2. Choose <Local network>
3. Click <OK>, after reading the explanation at least once
4. Find the folder of RIMMF data that you want to open
5. Click <OK>
6. RIMMF will create an Entity Index for the data in the folder; click <OK>
7. Open the Entity Index and proceed.

1. Go to Tools | Change data folder
2. Choose <Web folder>
3. Paste the URL for the Web archive folder (must be a zip file)
4. Click <Fetch>
5. RIMMF will create an Entity Index (EI) for the data in the folder, and will tell you how many records are added to the EI; click <OK>
6. The Entity Index will open, ready for you to proceed.

1. Go to Tools | Change data folder

1. Choose <Local Network>
2. Click <OK>, after reading the Information explanation at least once

1. Find the folder of RIMMF data that you want to open
2. Click <OK>
3. 

1. RIMMF will create an Entity Index for the data in the folder; click <OK>

1. Open the Entity Index and proceed to work with the new data file.

1. Go to Tools | Change data folder

1. Choose <Web folder>

1. Paste the URL for the Web archive folder (must be a zip file)
2. Click <Fetch>
3. RIMMF will create an Entity Index (EI) for the data in the folder, and will tell you how many records are added to the EI; click <OK>
4. The Entity Index will open, ready for you to proceed.

If you would like to try this out, here is a link to a small sample set of records for one resource:
http://www.marcofquality.com/tmqSharedRecords/FiveLittleMonkeysqpq157.zip

This example is described, and open for comments, here:
http://rimmf.wordpress.com/rimmfing-examples/five-little-monkeys-wash-the-car/

To return to your default data folder or open another data folder, you must exit RIMMF and re-open it. Once you exit RIMMF, the program will default to opening the folder named 'data' the next time you open RIMMF. So if you want to open another special folder, you will have to go through the Change data folder steps again. And, if you want to make a new a folder your default folder you will need to rename it as 'data'.

There are a few limitations in the current version.

1. RIMMF only supports one data folder at a time.

If you switch to a different data folder, and begin to create records in that folder, you will find that:

• any records that you create in the new folder are saved to that folder
• links do not work 'across folders', so if you copy the records you made in the different folder into your (default) data folder, you must copy all of records that are linked to that record, and any records linked to those additional records in order to keep those links

2. Even if you install RIMMF twice on the same computer, you will still have only one default data folder

This is because RIMMF looks for My Documents\RIMMF when it starts, and if it finds it, that becomes its default location for all operations¹⁾

Click here for more information about sharing RIMMF records