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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hi Wim,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thanks for your input. When I opened each file individually I did do it from the book file, saved each file, and updated the book (including references) – for both the FM 9 and FM 7 files the xrefs were still unresolved.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I’ll have to try saving first, then moving, maybe that will do the trick. Thought I’d save time by doing both in one step but apparently not.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Peggy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Wim Hooghwinkel - idtp [mailto:wim@idtp.eu] <br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, February 28, 2013 2:24 PM<br><b>To:</b> Harvey, Peggy<br><b>Cc:</b> framers@lists.frameusers.com<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: Relative vs. absolute links<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi Peggy,<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>it's your workflow that creates the confusion in references.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>You say: ''3) I opened all of the files in FM 9, therefore converting them to FM 9 format. I did my cleanup, including fixing the graphics path to the "Graphics" subfolder and fixing cross-reference links that were broken. In retrospect I believe cross-references within the same file were okay but cross-references between files were all broken.''<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>If you open the files individually in FM9, it can't resolve cross refs because these are in FM7 files. If you didn't change names (didn't you …?) best approach is to use a book file for all the docs, open the book in FM9, open all files in the book accepting all errors and then save al files in the book, next: update all references. Now at least the cross refs should be resolved.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Then you say: ''4) When I finished my work I saved each individual file and the book file in MIF 7.0 format. I saved the MIF files in a different folder than the FM 9 files and copied the "Graphics" directory to the same folder as the MIF files.'' <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>If you save a file in a different folder, all references will still point to the original locations. So saving the FM9 files in a FM7 folder will not let them point to the graphics folder in the FM7 folder. So you should first save, then move.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Your paths are not 'changing to absolute' but are still relative, although pointing to the wrong folder. (note that when you read a MIF file all paths are written as absolute paths).<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>You better use a book mover utility….<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:13.5pt'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards,<br> <br>Wim Hooghwinkel<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Information Energy 2013 – Leading Conference on Innovation in Knowledge and Information Exchange</span></b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><br><a href="http://informationenergy.org/">IEn2013</a><br> <br>tel. +31652036811<br>Skype wimhooghwinkel<br>Twitter @idtp @NLDITA @ien2013<br><a href="mailto:info@idtp.eu">info@idtp.eu</a> <br><a href="http://www.idtp.eu">www.idtp.eu</a><br> <br>FrameMaker support: <a href="mailto:framemaker@idtp.eu">framemaker@idtp.eu</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>