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How to copy or rename a unique instance

Asked by therapon sundoulos

I have several unique instances and find them very useful. Is it possible to copy a unique instance to a different name or rename an existing one? If so, how would I do it?

Thanks,
therapon

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therapon sundoulos (sundoulos2) said : 		#1

A little SQL magic once I found the database and I got what I needed.

A Session Manager like Konqueror has would be a nice additional feature.

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Adam Reichold (adamreichold) said : 		#2

Hello therapon,

glad that you could help yourself. Just if anyone stumbles upon this in the future: An unique instance is currently nothing but a distinct value in the column "instanceName" of the "tabs_v5" database table that is part of qpdfview's database usually located at "~/.local/share/qpdfview/qpdfview/database". (The table is used to (re)store the opened tabs of any given qpdfview session, i.e. a unique instance is just a set of open tabs.)

So the query the instance, use for example "SELECT DISTINCT instanceName FROM tabs_v5;" whereas "UPDATE tabs_v5 SET instanceName='foo' WHERE instanceName='bar'" would rename instance "bar" into "foo".

Best regards,
Adam

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Adam Reichold (adamreichold) said : 		#3

(Forgot, the database is an SQLite3 database, so one can for example access it using the sqlite3 command line utility or the sqlitebrowser GUI.)