Change settings? about paperless-desktop

[thomasbrueggemann]

Hi, the settings are stored in the localStorage of the WebView https://github.com/thomasbrueggemann/paperless-desktop/blob/master/js/src/components/Settings.js#L70

But you should be able to navigate to the settings-view by clicking on the little "gear" icon in the Button-Bar and change your settings there. As far as I now this is already implemented.

[philippeowagner]

@thomasbrueggemann the settings view will not be loaded by clicking on the gear icon.

[thomasbrueggemann]

Oh okay. Than you have two options, untill the settings view is properly implemented:

1. You remove and reinstall the application completely
2. You start the app with dev-tools enabled https://github.com/thomasbrueggemann/paperless-desktop/blob/master/main.js#L145 and type in the console localStorage.setItem("settings.host", "http://localhost:1234"); with your new host.

[philippeowagner]

The 1st option did not work for me so I tried the 2nd one.

Getting this error while trying to follow the installation guide provided here: the-paperless-project/paperless#69 (comment)

Engine:paperless-desktop phi$ /Users/phi/.npm-packages/bin/npm install
npm WARN [email protected] requires a peer of webpack@>=0.9 <2 || ^2.1.0-beta but none was installed.

Because it was just a _WARN_ing I tried to ..

Engine:paperless-desktop phi$ /Users/phi/.npm-packages/bin/npm start

and got

> [email protected] start /Users/phi/GitHub/paperless-desktop
> gulp && electron .

module.js:327
    throw err;
    ^

Error: Cannot find module 'caniuse-db/features-json/css-featurequeries.json'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:325:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:276:25)
    at Module.require (module.js:353:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:12:17)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/phi/GitHub/paperless-desktop/node_modules/gulp-autoprefixer/node_modules/autoprefixer/lib/supports.js:16:10)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/phi/GitHub/paperless-desktop/node_modules/gulp-autoprefixer/node_modules/autoprefixer/lib/supports.js:255:4)
    at Module._compile (module.js:409:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:416:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:343:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:300:12)

Maybe you could point me to the right direction :) Thanks

[thomasbrueggemann]

That looks as if the $ npm install did not run through properly. Try to manually remove the /node_modules folder within the /paperless-desktop folder and run $ npm install again in the /paperless-desktop folder.

As an alternative, if you just want to use paperless-desktop in its current state: I just packaged a macOS executable as a pre-release. You can use that without having to deal with node and npm.
https://github.com/thomasbrueggemann/paperless-desktop/releases/tag/v0.0.2-alpha

[philippeowagner]

Problem solved 🎉 !! Thank you very much for 0.0.2.

[philippeowagner]

BTW: The suggestion in your comment did the trick.