From: Paul F. <pf....@gm...> - 2011-11-25 19:00:18
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I was reading and thinking about a new feature request http://www.gramps-project.org/bugs/view.php?id=5394 where the author had "about 60" family trees he wanted to transfer from one gramps to another. But I don't know much about databases, nor about the details which are stored in a .gramps/.gpkg file. So I looked at an unzipped version of one but didn't see anything which looked like the name of the database had been saved away in that file, the user-assigned name of the family tree. So did I miss it? If not, can a user do something to put that name in, etc. If it's not there, should we think about including it? Are there going to be any drawbacks if that is done? All of the above questions were caused by me wondering if it is possible to import such a saved-away database file and have the new family tree have the old name. In an automatic fashion I mean, since of course it could be done manually, by renaming the family tree. But while I am not a gramps expert I only know how to do that renaming in the GUI world. Is there any way to rename a family tree in the CLI world, on a command line? Alternatively, is there any way to run a CLI import command and have the result be either (1) its old name, or (2) a new name you give it? (When I say "gramps -i barf.gramps" I get a new family tree called "Family Tree 1" (if that name was not already existing, etc.) but I don't know of any way to type in a variant of that "-i" command and have it end up with a name I want.) Thanks. |