I think I have run into this in other programs (copying word documents, etc.) in Windows. I think its pretty common and a methology has already been developed that works well.
The system I have encounted I think works like this: when you are copying files and it discovers a file with the same name, I think its gives you four options.
Maybe(?): replace replace all (and two others?)
Something like that. I think this is very common and a system has already been developed that works well. (Too bad I can't remember exactly how it works and what the options are, but maybe someone else can do a better job).
Jeff
The system I have encounted I think works like this: when you are copying files and it discovers a file with the same name, I think its gives you four options.
Maybe(?): replace replace all (and two others?)
Something like that. I think this is very common and a system has already been developed that works well. (Too bad I can't remember exactly how it works and what the options are, but maybe someone else can do a better job).
Jeff
(09-29-2013, 09:01 AM)smw Wrote:(09-28-2013, 05:18 PM)Zuberman Wrote: If you long press a song on the library screen, there is an option to "Swap PDF". Is this different than what you are looking for?
Speaking for myself, I'd prefer an option called "Replace PDF". That is, sometimes I'll rescan a song I already loaded into MobileSheets, or otherwise edit and improve the original PDF file on my computer. At that point I'd love to have an easy way to replace the PDF file that MobileSheets is using.
The existing "Swap PDF" option doesn't seem to do that; instead, what it appeared to do the one time I tried it was to tell MobileSheets to use the new PDF file, but in the location where I'd uploaded it to the tablet -- but that directory's contents get replaced on each subsequent upload, so the song failed to work at all because MobileSheets was looking for a file which no longer existed.
Thus, what I'm actually doing in practice is to delete the song from MobileSheets entirely and reimport it from scratch, which of course loses annotations and linked mp3s. Granted that annotations may be in the wrong location if the underlying PDF file has changed, but I'd rather move them than have to start over (and most of the time, at least for me, the new PDF is the same size as the original, so most annotations wouldn't have to move anyway).
I did once try manually copying the new PDF over the old one in the actual data directory MobileSheets was using for that song. I forget what happened, but it didn't seem to work very well, nor did I really expect it to.
Hence, it would be really nice to have an explicit option for "take this new PDF file and copy it over the one MobileSheets is already using".
- Steven