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Frequentry Asked Questions (FAQ)
This article covers the most common and frequently asked questions about Symphytum.
Symphytum stores database entries into a file called data.db
while binary files like images and documents are stored inside a files
directory outside the database file.
Depending on your operating system the following directories are used:
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Windows:
C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\giowisys\symphytum
You can access this directory by entering
explorer %LOCALAPPDATA%\giowisys\symphytum
into the start menu search or into the address/location bar of Windows Explorer. Advance users can opencmd.exe
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Windows portable:
portable_data
directory which can be found inside the same directory containing thesymphytum.exe
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macOS:
~/Library/Application Support/giowisys/Symphytum/
, please see this article from Macworld about instructions to access the library folder under macOS. -
Linux:
~/.local/share/giowisys/Symphytum
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Linux Snap:
~/snap/symphytum/current/.local/share/giowisys/Symphytum
At this time the printing functionality is very basic, see issue 72 and 106 for more info.
It is possible to open the SQLite file called data.db
directly through third party apps like sqlitebrowser. It is discouraged to edit data and metadata directly though. Symphytum takes care of the metadata and character escaping (;
escaped as \colon
, for example) when editing records and field metadata. Editing manually the raw database can potentially introduce errors in the metadata.