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4 | <title>The Greenstone Librarian Interface - Help Pages</title>
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9 | <td width="15%" align="center"><img width="45" src="../gatherer_medium.gif" height="45"></td><td width="*" align="center"><a name="openingacollection"><font size="5" face="Verdana"><strong>2.3: Opening an Existing Collection</strong></font></a></td><td width="15%" align="center"><img width="45" src="../gatherer_medium.gif" height="45"></td>
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13 | This section tells you how to open existing collections using the Open
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14 | Collection prompt.
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15 | <p></p>
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18 | <td align="center"><font size="4" face="Verdana"><strong>
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19 | Contents
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27 | <td colspan="3"><a href="#simple">Simple Instructions:</a></td>
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31 | <td colspan="1"> </td><td colspan="2">
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32 | How to open a collection
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38 | <td colspan="3"><a href="#advanced">Advanced Instructions:</a></td>
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42 | <td colspan="1"> </td><td colspan="2">
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43 | Locked collections
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48 | <td colspan="1"> </td><td colspan="2">
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49 | Legacy collections
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58 | <p></p>
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60 | <p></p>
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61 | <img width="20" src="../gatherer_small.gif" height="20"><a name="simple"> Simple Instructions:</a>
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62 | <p style="text-align:justify"></p>
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63 | To open an existing collection, choose "Open" from the "File" menu to get the
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64 | Open Collection prompt. A list of your Greenstone collections appears.
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65 | Select one to see its description, and click "Open" to load it. If you seek a
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66 | collection that resides outside Greenstone's "collect" folder, click "Browse"
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67 | for a file system browsing dialog.
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68 | <p></p>
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69 | <img width="20" src="../gatherer_small.gif" height="20"><a name="advanced"> Advanced Instructions:</a>
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70 | <p style="text-align:justify"></p>
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71 | In case more than one Greenstone Librarian Interface program is running
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72 | concurrently, the relevant directories are "locked" to prevent interference.
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73 | On opening a collection, a small temporary lock file is created in its
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74 | folder. Before opening a collection, the Librarian Interface checks to ensure
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75 | that no lock file already exists. You can tell whether a collection is locked
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76 | by the colour of its icon: green for a normal collection, red for a locked
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77 | one. However, when the Librarian Interface is exited prematurely the lock file
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78 | is sometimes left in place. When you open such a collection, the Librarian asks
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79 | if you want to "steal" control of it. Never steal a collection that someone
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80 | else is currently working on.
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81 | <p></p>
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82 | When you open a collection that the Greenstone Librarian Interface did
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83 | not create, you will be asked to select a metadata set (or sets). If
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84 | none are selected, any existing metadata will be ignored. Otherwise,
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85 | metadata will be imported just as it is when you drag in files with
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86 | existing metadata. The process is described in the <a href="importingpreviouslyassignedmetadata.htm#importingpreviouslyassignedmetadata">Importing Previously Assigned Metadata</a> section.
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