org: Moving subtrees
9.6.1 Moving a tree to the archive file
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The most common archiving action is to move a project tree to another
file, the archive file.
‘C-c C-x C-s or short C-c $ (org-archive-subtree)’
Archive the subtree starting at the cursor position to the location
given by ‘org-archive-location’.
‘C-u C-c C-x C-s’
Check if any direct children of the current headline could be moved
to the archive. To do this, each subtree is checked for open TODO
entries. If none are found, the command offers to move it to the
archive location. If the cursor is _not_ on a headline when this
command is invoked, the level 1 trees will be checked.
The default archive location is a file in the same directory as the
current file, with the name derived by appending ‘_archive’ to the
current file name. You can also choose what heading to file archived
items under, with the possibility to add them to a datetree in a file.
For information and examples on how to specify the file and the heading,
see the documentation string of the variable ‘org-archive-location’.
There is also an in-buffer option for setting this variable, for
example(1):
#+ARCHIVE: %s_done::
If you would like to have a special ARCHIVE location for a single entry
or a (sub)tree, give the entry an ‘:ARCHIVE:’ property with the location
as the value (
Properties and Columns).
When a subtree is moved, it receives a number of special properties
that record context information like the file from where the entry came,
its outline path the archiving time etc. Configure the variable
‘org-archive-save-context-info’ to adjust the amount of information
added.
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(1) For backward compatibility, the following also works: If there
are several such lines in a file, each specifies the archive location
for the text below it. The first such line also applies to any text
before its definition. However, using this method is _strongly_
deprecated as it is incompatible with the outline structure of the
document. The correct method for setting multiple archive locations in
a buffer is using properties.
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