Need an EASY fix to broken links where only the HD drive designator has changed

[rgarber]

I keep images I link to on a portable hard drive (which depending on Window's whims could assign that drive a drive letter anything from F to Z, sometimes, even depending on the weather?).  

Okay, you say, all I would need to do is change the drive designator in Windows Disk Manager and everything would be just right. Agreed. However, the resource manager doesn't give an option to locate the information on a different drive, and shouldn't it? Because when I first made this project file it just happen to be the portable hard disk was H: and all the links start with that in the project file when I would've preferred they start with F:. So to change that I have to manually re-link each page that has the link. That's a lot of pages to re-link for this project. Isn't there a way to do something this simple automatically without having to re-link each link manually?   

[walt.farrell]

The Relink option in Resource Manager (V2) will let you locate 1 image, and then it will automatically find everything else that's in the same directory. 

[rgarber]

Sorry but that doesn't help. I already wrote the images are in separate folders if you read the OP again. What I'm requesting is the ability to simply change the drive designator because its Windows designating the drive letter. Normally I only have one external drive plugged in but at the time I did this and two other project files, I had three external drives plugged in putting this particular drive at H:. Changing two of those three drives to reflect F: (because one was F: at that time) will take forever if I have to do each folder one at a time.

And like I wrote in the OP, I can change the drive designation via Disk Manager. But that doesn't help me to change the data stored in the project file which is reading the files located at H:. You know, that was a one time thing where I had all three drives plugged in at the same time. Might even be easier to just embed the images in the project file than try to fix this. 

[HCl]

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[walt.farrell]

39 minutes ago, rgarber said:

I already wrote the images are in separate folders if you read the OP again.

Well, it will help, but not as much as if they were in a single folder. It would take 1 Relink operation per folder.

(And, my apologies for not reading carefully enough.)

Your best short-term approach is to tell Windows to change the drive letter to H, which you should be able to do as long as you have no other drive using that letter. As you know, there is no function in Publisher that will do it right now, and there's no way to predict whether Serif will agree to implement one nor how long that might take. And if you change the drive letter to H, your problem is (at least temporarily) solved.

To solve it more permanently, after changing the drive letter, you might consider Packaging your file, which will copy all its fonts to a folder named Fonts and copy all its Linked files to a folder named Images, and put your main file into a .afpackage file that references those two folders. Publisher won't care where the .afpackage file, the Fonts folder, and the Images folder live, as long as Fonts and Images are located in the same folder as the .afpackage file.

[rgarber]

Thanks, both, for your suggestions. At the time I wasn't aware of this issue with Publisher, and it seemed like a good idea to use Publisher for cataloging the backups but now after reading this I'm not sure it was a good idea. The pictures are something the creators of the addons created to illustrate the product and I thought would be a good idea to include with the catalog is what the images is all about. Just something to help me in a glance to remember what the addons do. I have well over a hundred just of one type for my Blender usage. The other two disks contain about as much just different kinds of addons. It's taking me years to get this done, finally, and at that there's still one more type of data I have to organize. Anyway, appreciate the info, both of you's and thanks! 🙂 - Rich

[walt.farrell]

You're welcome.