FrameMaker 11 and referenced graphics pointing to wrong drive: nightmare alley

[Jim Owens]

You may be able to change the letters assigned to your drives. See 
http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windows7/ht/change-drive-letters-windows-7.htm


On 2013-05-14 14:38, Rob Shell wrote:
> Dear Framers:
> I wonder if anyone out there has experienced this.
> I upgraded windows 7 32 bit to 64 bit.
> To do this I had to do a clean reinstall on the C: drive which meant
> reinstalling every single bit of software including TC4. No drives were
> reassigned or re-named.
> Everything went well -- and three days later --  I had my new 64 bit machine
> with 8 gigs of Ram.  All this was done to facilitate one big 10,000 page
> annual pdf project.
> Finally I opened the book of books.
> Everything opened well but every single graphic (all referenced, all under
> 250kb) was now referenced to the H: where the FM texts reside.
> However, all the graphics files really reside on the G: drive.
> So now I have 1,000 graphics files which are mis-referenced.
>
> My questions are
> How can I restore the proper drive letter in object properties?
> How did this happen?
> Has anybody experienced this?
> Is there anything else I can do
> Perhaps if I copy the G: directories to H: the problems will go away.
> Any ideas?
>
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> Rob
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> Rob Shell
> Windows Seven 64 bit
> TCS 4
> CS4
> 4 GB RAM
> 3 TB hd
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