How to manually search & replace item in catalog.dat file?
Posted: 20 Dec 2014 23:59
I have the following catalog category:
My goal is to save this as a catalog file (django_project_category.dat), and use it as a template, which I would then import into my "All Django projects" catalog as a new category. For each project, I want to replace "Django auth tutorial" with "New Django project name", and "django_auth_lifecycle" with "new_project_name". In reality, this will have more than just two items, so manually changing each item's description and location, for each project, is pretty laborious.
It'd be nice to have a search and replace feature for categories, but that seems like a moderately large request. So instead, is it possible to *manually* make these replacements in a hex editor? I'm not familiar with editing binary files. I just tried search and replace in HxD, but this:
resulted in this:
and this:
resulted in this:
(Both give me a "this operation changes the file size" warning, which I don't know if it's relevant.)
Am I on the right path here?
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Category name: "Django auth tutorial"
Item1:
- Caption: "Copy '/../django_auth_lifecycle/'"
- Location: ':: copytext "/home/jeffy/django_files/django_auth_lifecycle/"'
Item2:
- Caption: "Copy 'Q:\..\django_auth_lifecycle\'"
- Location: ':: copytext "Q:\django_files\django_auth_lifecycle\"'It'd be nice to have a search and replace feature for categories, but that seems like a moderately large request. So instead, is it possible to *manually* make these replacements in a hex editor? I'm not familiar with editing binary files. I just tried search and replace in HxD, but this:
resulted in this:
and this:
resulted in this:
(Both give me a "this operation changes the file size" warning, which I don't know if it's relevant.)
Am I on the right path here?
