Re: where is emblem info stored ?

[Mark McLoughlin <mark skynet ie>]

Hey,

On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 04:59, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On 23 Jan 2003, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 10:34, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > > On 23 Jan 2003, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Hi!
> > > > 
> > > > As I realized that all my emblem assignments are gone since I upgraded
> > > > to nautilus 2.1.91 (from 2.0.8).
> > > > 
> > > > I wonder whether someone could explain where the information about
> > > > whether a file/dir has an emblem is stored in current nautilus / was in
> > > > 2.0.x.
> > > > 
> > > > As I have really many of these emblems assigned (~100) this is a major
> > > > annoyance for _ME_.
> > > 
> > > They are stored in ~/.nautilus/metafiles/*.xml. And look something like:
> > > <keyword name="package"/><keyword name="personal"/><keyword name="special"/>
> > > 
> > > It would be great if someone could hack up a perl script to rename them.
> > 
> > I probably would, but where was the info before, i.e. in nautilus 2.0.x
> > ?
> 
> Same place, only the keywords changed names.

	It would also be *really* great if we could a link to this script and a
warning about the change into the release notes. CC-ing the release
team.

	Alex, is there no policy on backwards compatibility with meta data ?
After running the script won't you now have lost the emblems if you log
back into GNOME 2.0 ?

Thanks,
Mark.