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Reinstalling Brainstorm
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Posted by sean
Nov 7, 2012 at 04:07 AM
Hi Wolfgang, how do you use Brainstorm with UR ? I can link a file in UR but can’t search it. So I generally save it as an HTML and link that as well in UR so it becomes searchable. I was wondering if there is any way to automate the export (since brainstorm doesn’t have any command line options for it) or otherwise make the brn file searchable UR or any better alternative for integrating the two.
Posted by Dr Andus
Nov 7, 2012 at 09:41 PM
sean wrote:
>Hi Wolfgang, how do you use Brainstorm with UR ? I can link a file in UR but can’t search
>it. So I generally save it as an HTML and link that as well in UR so it becomes searchable.
>I was wondering if there is any way to automate the export (since brainstorm doesn’t
>have any command line options for it) or otherwise make the brn file searchable UR or
>any better alternative for integrating the two.
Here’s another message that got buried today. I’m just replying in case it’s more likely to reach its intended recipient (and I’m also curious).
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Nov 7, 2012 at 11:31 PM
Thanks Dr Andus, your trick seems to work.
Sean, in theory, all you should need to do is to add .brn to the extensions that UltraRecall parses for keywords (indexing). Brainstorm files are ANSI files with some additional binary attributes. You can view a Brainstorm file in a text editor (the text editor will complain about the binary content, which you can ignore)—just don’t save it from the editor or it will be corrupted.
I tried the theory outlined above but got nil results. My guess is that UltraRecall doesn’t like the binary content or excludes the .brn files from indexing for other reasons. I renamed a .brn file to .txt but again with no luck.