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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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| 17 | To open an existing collection, choose "Open" from the "File" menu to get the
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| 18 | Open Collection prompt. A list of your Greenstone collections appears.
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| 19 | Select one to see its description, and click "Open" to load it. If you seek a
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| 20 | collection that resides outside Greenstone's "collect" folder, click "Browse"
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| 21 | for a file system browsing dialog.
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| 22 | <p></p>
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| 24 | In case more than one Greenstone Librarian Interface program is running
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| 25 | concurrently, the relevant directories are "locked" to prevent interference.
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| 26 | On opening a collection, a small temporary lock file is created in its
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| 27 | folder. Before opening a collection, the Librarian Interface checks to ensure
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| 28 | that no lock file already exists. You can tell whether a collection is locked
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| 29 | by the colour of its icon: green for a normal collection, red for a locked
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| 30 | one. However, when the Librarian Interface is exited prematurely the lock file
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| 31 | is sometimes left in place. When you open such a collection, the Librarian asks
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| 32 | if you want to "steal" control of it. Never steal a collection that someone
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| 33 | else is currently working on.
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| 34 | <p></p>
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| 35 | When you open a collection that the Greenstone Librarian Interface did
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| 36 | not create, you will be asked to select a metadata set (or sets). If
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| 37 | none are selected, any existing metadata will be ignored. Otherwise,
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| 38 | metadata will be imported just as it is when you drag in files with
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| 39 | existing metadata. The process is described in the <a href="importingpreviouslyassignedmetadata.htm#importingpreviouslyassignedmetadata">Importing Previously Assigned Metadata</a> section.
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