(defvar org-id-locations nil "List of files with IDs in those files.")
(defvar org-id-files nil "List of files that contain IDs.") you are in a maze of twisty little passages. you are in a twisty maze of little passages. On 1/19/21, doltes <doltes...@gmail.com> wrote: > > aroz...@gmail.com writes: > >> This question is in the context of using Org-id UUIDs for linking between >> files. If I understand correctly, Org-id knows where to look for UUIDs >> (generated by org-id-get-create) by looking at the org-id-locations >> variable. But what if I move an .org file that I've generated a UUID into >> another folder? I know I can run org-id-update-id-locations, and there's >> an >> org-id-extra-files variable, but is there a way to list all the folders >> on >> the system where Org-id should look for UUIDs? >> >> Thanks, >> Alan > > After reading the docstring of the function > =org-id-update-id-locations=, I found that the files which are scanned > are defined by 6 variables. > > The following was retrieved from the docstring > > #+begin_quote > This will scan all agenda files, all associated archives, and all > files currently mentioned in ‘org-id-locations’. > #+end_quote > > This implies that when that function is executed, the files whose > content is searched for IDs (i.e. they are scanned) are > > + The files mentioned in =org-agenda-files=. > + The archives associated to the files in =org-agenda-files=. > + The files mentioned in =org-id-locations=. > + The files provided as arguments to the =org-id-update-id-locations=. > > The following are not mentioned in the documentation of > =org-id-update-id-locations=, but when looking at the source code, you > can see that the value of the following variables is used > > + =org-id-extra-files= > + =org-id-files= > > As we could see, the files which are scanned are defined by 6 variables. > > Now, apparently, you want to get a list of the files which are > scanned. You can do that by executing what > =org-id-update-id-locations= executes in order to get the list of > files to scan. The following was retrieved from that function with > some modifications > > #+begin_src elisp :results output > (let ((files (delete-dups > (mapcar #'file-truename > (append > (org-agenda-files t org-id-search-archives) > (unless (symbolp org-id-extra-files) > org-id-extra-files) > org-id-files))))) > (dolist (file files) (princ (format "%s\n" file)))) > #+end_src > > #+RESULTS: > #+begin_example > /home/username/my/org/Statistics.org > /home/username/my/org/Programming languages/Elisp.org > /home/username/my/org/Programming languages/R.org > #+end_example > > Hope that helps. Let me know if that answers your question. > > -- The Kafka Pandemic Please learn what misopathy is. https://thekafkapandemic.blogspot.com/2013/10/why-some-diseases-are-wronged.html