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

[Fred Ridder]

I don't think this will work because Rob already has an H: drive, which is where his FM files are. You can't assign two drives (or two partitions) to the same letter.

I think his only option is moving the directories to the drive letter that FrameMaker is expecting to use. But I'm not sure because I have *never* kept files for any FrameMaker project in more than one partition because I know that this practice forces FrameMaker to use absolute paths to the referenced files rather than relative paths. As much as possible (and it's not always possible when using any files that are shared among multiple documents) I have always kept all files for any given document in subdirectories within the same branch of my directory structure. 

-Fred Ridder

> Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 15:21:36 -0400
> From: jowens at magma.ca
> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: Re: FrameMaker 11 and referenced graphics pointing to wrong drive:	nightmare alley
> 
> 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?
> >
> >
> > Rob
> >
> > Rob Shell
> > Windows Seven 64 bit
> > TCS 4
> > CS4
> > 4 GB RAM
> > 3 TB hd
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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