Where on harddrive is Style Library? How to migrate it?

[NisusUser]

Hi,
I just put in a new harddrive, and rather than use Apple's Migration Assistant, I've chosen to slowly migrate needed apps and files over from the old HD to the new one. One problem I'm having is figuring out where the Style Library should be. It does not seem to be here: [user]/Library/Application Support/Nisus Writer Pro. There is also nothing in the root folder that I can find. On my old HD, I found some .rft files in a folder called "Style Library" in my Documents folder. I copied them to the new HD at [user]/Documents/Nisus Documents/Style Library. I opened them and saved them with File>Save as in Document Manager>Style Library, and, of course, it saw they were already there. I replaced them anyway. However, I don't think NWP really "knows" where these Style files are, since when I click on "Style Sheet View" and then select "Import from Style Library", there is nothing to import. And the Document Manager's Style Library is empty.

I just tried something else (besides perusing the manual about Document Manager, but which I didn't really get my mind around): I closed NWP which was running from the new internal HD, and I plugged in the external (the old HD). I launched NWP from it. I opened a file I new had some styles in it that I need. From Style Sheet View, I selected a Style (highlighting). Then I tried "Save to Style Library". A box came up: "Add Styles to New Style Collection" (adding to existing was prevented, i.e. grayed out). I put in a name for a new Style Collection and clicked "Save." However, I can't find any file by that name on the HD, and the Style Library in the Document Manager is still empty. I tried to save via File>Save As in Document Manager>Style Library. I actually succeeded in saving that entire file with the styles I wanted into the new HD's Documents/Nisus Documents/Style Library, but I'm not sure that'll do me any good.

Thanks for helping me sort through the mess I've made

Eric

NWP 2.0.4 on 10.6.8

[exegete77]

Mine is in Documents > Nisus Documents > Style Library

[NisusUser]

And I have got them there in Finder. But NWP doesn't see them.

[martin]

The Style Library is loaded from files found in a subfolder of your Document Manager. By default this is in your home folder at:

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~/Documents/Nisus Documents/Style Library 

Which is where exegete77's is located.

However, the Document Manager folder is something that's customizable in your NWP preferences. You can check that to make sure: in the "Doc Manager" pane you'll see at the very top a setting for the "Document Manager folder". If you changed that, the Style Library subfolder will be loaded from there instead.

One final tip: if you're moving files around on disk, it's probably best to do so while NWP isn't running. I hope this helps, let us know how it goes.

[NisusUser]

Indeed, Martin! I think what happened is that I copied over some Nisus .plist files, so that location must have copied over, too. There wasn't even such a path in the folder structure of this HD, so NWP never found it. I had looked through NWP's preferences I don't know how many times, but never saw that place to set the location of the Style Library. Fixed! Thank you!

[martin]

Excellent, I'm glad that was indeed the problem and you've got it sorted out now.