COREX

If you have some storage space to spare (+/- 115GB) you might consider copying all audio files to local or network disk. This will allow you to use COREX without having to change CDs whenever you need access to a particular audio file. To do this take the following steps:

1. copy all content including the subdirectory structure of every DVD with audio files (CGN_WAV_01, CGN_WAV_02 etc.) to the same destination directory. In this example we use the windows subdirectory C:\COREX6\data\audio\wav which is the standard location for CGN wav files under Windows.
2. if you already installed COREX6, just edit the following file:
   {YOUR_COREX_DIR}\corex\scripts\corex.bat (edit corex.sh if your OS is Unix/MacOS X)
   Locate the line that defines "AUDIODIR" and change the path to your central storage location, in this example:
   set AUDIODIR=C:\COREX6\data\audio\wav
3. if you haven't installed COREX6 yet, you can change the setting of the AUDIODIR parameter during the installation process. The COREX installer will ask for the location of the DVD unit. Just enter your location for the audio files instead:
   DVD unit? (default: E:\)
   C:\COREX6\data\audio\wav

Warning: path names containing white space are not supported by COREX!

COREX offers the unsupported feature to use the data files (annotations and meta data) from location (e.g. a network drive) that is different from where the COREX program itself is located. Be aware that if the data has to be accessed by COREX from a slower medium than your local hard drive, performance will drop noticeably while doing searches.

1. do a regular install of COREX6 in a location of your choice as described in the installation guide (for this example we use the SMB location \\NETDRIVE\COREX6 ). This will copy all data that is required for COREX. That does for example not include annotations in plain text (/data/annot/text) or meta data in Excel or text format. If you like to have all formats of data to be available on disk, just make an integral copy of the CGN_ANN_V1.0 DVD to hard disk

2. Assuming you now have all data stored on a remote drive, you can install the COREX-program without data in another location (preferably on your local machine) by running the installer with the following parameter from the command line:
   install installp
   Unix/Mac users, type at the command line:
sh install.sh installp
This install will create a COREX6 directory that only contains the subdirectory "corex" (+/- 130MB in size).

3. Now for every COREX installation from which you want to access the central storage of data files, make the following changes in corex.bat (or corex.sh for Unix/MacOS X users) and change DATADIR so it reflects the actual storage place of the data files:
   set DATADIR=\\NETDRIVE\COREX6\data

Warning: path names containing white space are not supported by COREX!