The other shortcut I take -- I'm basically lazy -- is to make the user create their own bookmark to the database. Since there isn't a user ID associated with the file I don't see a reason to create a separate location document. Anyway, some of my users are even lazier than I am, and refuse to use anything so fancy.

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