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

Tue May 14 17:00:11 PDT 2013

Yes, you should only have to do the remapping once per chapter even if the graphics files are on a different drive ... if all the graphics are in a single folder. If they aren't, you have to do it once per chapter per folder. If you've got lots of graphics folders, that's a right pain. If possible, I'd move all the graphics into one folder.

If your graphics' source folder changes multiple times in a file, FM will try to get you to pick the source folder for each graphic in turn. It's quicker to point the first missing graphic to the correct location (say folder1), then skip the rest of the missing graphics. FM will fix all references to folder1. Then save the file, close it, reopen it, and repeat for folder2 etc.

Cheers
Rebecca

>>> Lise Bible <rentagoodbook at gmail.com> 15/05/13 08:12 >>>
I recall that when I've had Frame files (that had been moved) looking for graphics in a certain directory and couldn't find them, if I pointed the first one to the correct directory, it found the rest in that same directory.
Now, caveats being that in my case, the frame files and the graphics files are both on sub-directories of the same network drive name, and all the graphics files are in one folder, so I don't know if this works if it has to navigate to the "root" of a different drive, as Fred references below.
-Lise

On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Fred Ridder <docudoc at hotmail.com> wrote:

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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