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Created October 30, 2016 13:12
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Archive subtrees under the same hierarchy as original in the archive files.
(defadvice org-archive-subtree (around fix-hierarchy activate)
(let* ((fix-archive-p (and (not current-prefix-arg)
(not (use-region-p))))
(afile (org-extract-archive-file (org-get-local-archive-location)))
(buffer (or (find-buffer-visiting afile) (find-file-noselect afile))))
ad-do-it
(when fix-archive-p
(with-current-buffer buffer
(goto-char (point-max))
(while (org-up-heading-safe))
(let* ((olpath (org-entry-get (point) "ARCHIVE_OLPATH"))
(path (and olpath (split-string olpath "/")))
(level 1)
tree-text)
(when olpath
(org-mark-subtree)
(setq tree-text (buffer-substring (region-beginning) (region-end)))
(let (this-command) (org-cut-subtree))
(goto-char (point-min))
(save-restriction
(widen)
(-each path
(lambda (heading)
(if (re-search-forward
(rx-to-string
`(: bol (repeat ,level "*") (1+ " ") ,heading)) nil t)
(org-narrow-to-subtree)
(goto-char (point-max))
(unless (looking-at "^")
(insert "\n"))
(insert (make-string level ?*)
" "
heading
"\n"))
(cl-incf level)))
(widen)
(org-end-of-subtree t t)
(org-paste-subtree level tree-text))))))))
@daviderestivo
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@Fuco1: Thanks for having answered 👍

@AtomicNess123
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Thanks for the quick response, @Fuco1, as I don't know Elisp, I will have to continue as I am :) Thanks anyway!

@Thaodan
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Thaodan commented Jan 12, 2024

The advice still works however it adds the archived subtree to the kill ring.
It also only works if the org archive locations isn't under another subtree.

@Thaodan
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Thaodan commented Jan 12, 2024

I put in the advice in a small emacs package that has a function to enable and disable the advice:
https://gitlab.com/Thaodan/emacs.d-lisp/-/blob/master/org-archive-subtree-hierarchy.el

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