If you have decided to work on a corpus from the archive you first need to import it from the Remote Corpus to your Local Corpus, and then you can edit it. To do so, select the node/session from the Remote Corpus and simply drag the item and drop it into the local corpus icon . You can also right click on the corpus node you want to import and choose Import to Local Corpus.

In the dialogue box that pops up you may want to check the option Import Resource Files (if available), through which, as the name itself says, both the node and the possible resources that such node contains will be imported into the Local Corpus. Please be aware that: 1) Arbil cannot deal with resources that need authentication; 2) copying the resource files may take some time and will use disk space on your computer.

Select Start to initiate the import process. Select Stop if you want to interrupt such process.

Figure 3.5. Show details and options

Once the import process has started a message can appear, asking you whether you want to overwrite an existing local corpus/session node from the same original location. When is this option useful? Consider the likely scenario that you have imported a node from the Remote corpus and started editing it. If you want to reset the changes, you can reimport it from the Remote Corpus and answer "Yes" to the question "Overwrite?". You can apply this option to every branch of the corpora.

You may want to check the option Remember my choice, so that the message will not come out again for the other already existing files that Arbil will encounter during the import process.

Figure 3.6. Overwrite message

Once the import has finished you will see a window telling you how many Metadata Files have been processed. If you select Details, you will see all the possible errors that have occurred during the process.

Figure 3.7. Import completed