Windows Library / Libraries

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A frequent "Feature Request" or "Question" is how to store groups of Documents so as to restore as a Topic or interest or study group. Basically, that is a feature/function of a Personal Device such as a phone or computer.

Windows has a Library system, but many users don't always use it efficiently with SumatraPDFs abilities.
This is really down to personal preferences but let me show some hints

You can have many personal libraries in Windows, but each one has an upper limit of 50 "Top Level" topics so group as many as practical under a folder system to not breach that 50 Max. Here I have all comics in one folder and all programming books in another. You can also see (lower right) a starter shortcut for SumatraPDF with Programming included but that should realistically be elsewhere such as say desktop or a shortcut on the toolbar.

So what does that personal shortcut do? Is launch SumatraPDF with settings just for programming materials such as Manuals

"C:\Program Files\SumatraPDF\SumatraPDF.exe" -appdata C:\Users\WDAGUtilityAccount\Desktop\MyLibrary\Programming

The Taskbar Icon used is the one I personally set for the Windows Library not the SumatraPDF one and I have saved all the documents for a session as a tab group so now as many as were saved per grouping are loaded from a prior saved session.

This means that I can open files using same icons and shortcuts from a different device such as Windows 7 in its library system thus no need for duplicates in the network. But you do need to change the local shortcuts to point to the remote files.

One downside with using same files different paths is they are not relative to the settings so each device will need different session TAB SETS even though preferences such as theming can be common to all users.

So there could be duplication in filestates and tabgroups, and to avoid that we need to ensure ALL libraries are Mapped by windows to a common Folder.

TabGroups [
	[
		Name = Windows 10
		TabFiles [
			[
				Path = C:\Data\MyLibrary\Programming\Java\foojay – a place for friends of OpenJDK.pdf
			]
... other entries
		]
	]
	[
		Name = Windows 7
		TabFiles [
			[
				Path = \\HP-Z240\Data\MyLibrary\Programming\Java\foojay – a place for friends of OpenJDK.pdf
			]
... same other entries
		]
	]
]

For that reason ALL my files are accessible by a common mapped folder such as.

TabGroups [
	[
		Name = Java
		TabFiles [
			[
				Path = L:\MyLibrary\Programming\Java\foojay – a place for friends of OpenJDK.pdf
			]
... other entries
		]
	]
]

In the past I used external session savers that you may find more useful for portable use but in all cases, you are the one who decides how to load, edit and save file sets. These files only save the sets as fallback not add them back as sessions.

see https://github.com/GitHubRulesOK/SumatraPDF-Plus/blob/master/SessionSaver.cmd and
https://github.com/GitHubRulesOK/SumatraPDF-Plus/blob/master/SessionSaverDialog.cmd