> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >wondering if anyone has a method of renaming a collection, which may also contain nested collections and documents...cant seem to find anything straightforward ? > > > > > > There is no API call to rename a collection; what you can try though is > to manually create nested collection structure as necessary, shutdown > database, and copy all the files from old collections over to new > locations. This might work, no guarantees though - backup before you try > this. > Or how about using a generated name for the collection as it occurs on disk and using a meta-data attribute to store the human-readable name for the collection? This way you can change the name anytime you want to. Downside is that you will have to read the meta-data each time you want to open a collection by name.
Wouter
