Understanding projects
Various browsing environments
Sometimes users always want to browse in the same browsing environment. We'll
call a browsing environment a set of browser settings that affect user browsing
experience. These settings may include set of files stored in
cache, active
banner,
popup and
cookie filters. links in
organizer and so on. Some
users never want to change their browsing environment as their browsing needs
are mostly fixed.
However, sometimes it is necessary to have multiple browsing environments.
Especially, this is true for multiple users as users have versatile browsing
needs. Even, a single user may need to have multiple browsing environments: one
for normal browsing, others for browsing of certain sites.
Ad Annihilator projects
To accommodate such various browsing needs and provide multiple browsing
environments Ad Annihilator supports projects. Ad Annihilator project is a set
of following settings:
You may have as many projects as you wish and each one will
have a separate cache, filters and organizer links.
By default Ad Annihilator Configuration Wizard
creates a default project for you during setup so you don't have to bother
yourself with projects until you find that your browsing needs require multiple
browsing environments.
When you need two or more cache locations, set of filters and
organizer links, it is a good idea to create
separate projects. Of course, you are able to change, enable or disable
filters and organizer links on the fly, but if you have to do this too often,
having multiple projects and switching between
them quickly will save you a lot of efforts.
See How to manage projects?
for information on Ad Annihilator project-related tasks.
Project files
Physically, Ad Annihilator project represents a single file and a single
folder on the disk named after the project name you have chosen. The folder
contains all project settings: cache files, filters and organizer links. By
default the project file has .aap extension and project folder has .files
extension appended to project name.
When you create a project, Ad
Annihilator creates the project file and the project folder automatically. For
example, if you named the project "myaaproject", the file myaaproject.aap and
the folder myaaproject.files are created in the folder you selected for the
project.
Normally, you don't have to bother yourself with Ad Annihilator project
files. Ad Annihilator handles them on its own and it is not recommended to
change or delete project files manually. However, you may wish to share the
project between users on a single computer or different computers, give the
project to your friend so that he or she may utilize your cached files for
offline browsing. filters or organizer, make a backup copy of the project,
transfer a project from your home computer to the work and vice versa and so on.
All these tasks can be easily accomplished. All you have to do is to copy
project file and folder to target computer or folder and then
open it from that location with Ad
Annihilator.
It is recommended that you move Ad Annihilator projects to the same folder on
another computer as path name length is limited in Windows and this could lead
to Ad Annihilator cache malfunction, though very rarely. This does not apply to
moving of projects between disks as long as other path parts are left intact
since
path length is not changed. For example, if you have a project in C:\AAProjects
folder, it is safely to move it to C:\AAProjects folder on another computer or
to D:\AAProjects, E:\AAProjects and so on.
Another option to share and transfer offline documents is to use Ad
Annihilator packages. See Understanding
packages for more information.
Projects and offline browsing
When employing offline browsing
capabilities, it is often necessary to store offline files in separate
cache folder. For example, if you
are making a special research on the web and want that your research results to
be not lost and available offline later, to keep them separately or be able to
hand them over to you friend or colleague or transfer them to other computers,
it is a good idea to create a separate project
for this and then conduct a research browsing the web. Ad Annihilator will store
all the documents you browse in the cache related to this project, and then you
will be able to copy the project file and folder to another computer.
If you didn't create a separate project in this case, offline files would be
stored in your common project file and merged with other files in the cache you
browsed previously or later. If you handled the project to your friend, he or
she would get not only your research results but these extra documents as well.
Another way to transfer your research results is to use Ad Annihilator
packages but in this case you should remember the sites or documents you browsed
during research in order to hand them over. See
Understanding
packages for more information.
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