Need ideas - Moving large files from one folder to another without breaking links

Robert Lauriston robert at lauriston.com
Fri Sep 28 15:31:51 PDT 2012


I'm not sure what you're saying.

You're moving graphics files from one directory to another while
leaving the FrameMaker files into which they're imported by reference
in the same place?

If so, are you moving all the files from one directory to another?

On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 8:18 AM, Abungu, Salome (TTI Mpls)
<Salome.Abungu at thieletech.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know of  a program that will allow me to move several files to
> another folder without breaking links to graphics in other folders? We’ve
> imported graphics by using the “import by reference” option instead of
> copying the graphics to the document. We’ve done this because copying the
> graphics into the document bloats it. Our manuals have been created by
> several writers over the years. I have hundreds of files to move but haven’t
> done it yet because of this issue. I could open each book file and
> FrameMaker files and just archive them but again, there are hundreds of
> these things to move.



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