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I have over a hundred .png figures that exist within a folder in an Overleaf project that I would like to use in another project. I know to transfer files across projects is to click:
"Upload > From Another Project > Select a Project + Select a File".
However, "Select a File" only allows me to choose individual files, which would take ages if there are many. May I ask is there a way to transfer multiple files at once, or better, to transfer an entire folder between two projects?
I am not sure of want you have in this files and what you want obtain, but supposing that you have a main file book.tex in the directory "Bellankonda", and files as chap_page_015 are only chunks of body text (no fully compilable LaTeX documents) and you want obtain a unique PDF merging all these chunk, then the book file could be somethig as this:
\documentclass{book}
\begin{document}
\input{Chapter_02/chap_page_015}
\input{Chapter_02/chap_page_016}
\input{Chapter_02/chap_page_017}
% etcetera
\end{document}
If the subfiles are something as whole chapters, that must start-end newpages, may be you want use \include instead of \input. Please see When should I use \input vs. \include?
If the child documents are complete LaTeX files with preamble (starting with \documentclass and ended with \end{document} you can use the same file put including in the preample the packages standalone, or docmute, or subfiles (in this case use \subfiles instead of \input). The child documents must be all of the same class, in other case, you can try the combine class, but usually this usually this means asking for troubles. Another option in this case could be produce PDF files of individual pages and merge all with pdfpages package.
Edit
As the comment of Aku ask for a loop to write automatically the \input commands, a solution could be the \foreach command. The code below is a simple example where the main document include from page1.tex to page5.tex using this command:
% Main file
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
\foreach \c in {1,...,5}{\input{page\c.tex} }
\end{document}
With the subdocuments made from the commandline in this way:
echo " page {\em number 1}\par " > page1.tex
echo " page {\em number 2}\par " > page2.tex
echo " page {\em number 3}\par " > page3.tex
echo " page {\em number 4}\par " > page4.tex
echo " page {\em number 5}\par " > page5.tex
The results must be the following:
No – each Overleaf project is a separate Docker (mini) container, so they can't see each other. Having said that, you can use the "Add files > File from other project" in the Overleaf top bar to share files between projects.
These would become linked/aliased files, but updates are not propagated automatically. You'll have to click on the "Refresh" option for each linked child file, every time there's an "upstream" change, to retrieve and apply the changes.
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