Upgraded PC - All previous work is not right

[Rob W2]

Hi,

I upgraded my PC a few weeks ago which involved a new C :
Affinity Designer etc work ok, but all my art on the old drive has broken linked images and fonts which are still present are now all substituted.
Really lost my motivation to continue, but decided to ask here for help.

Is there a way to "reconnect" everything?
I searched on forums but they are specific to Publisher for fonts for example.
I mainly use Designer (Im still learning a lot about workflows)

Thanks

Edited November 16, 2024 by Rob W2

[GarryP]

Welcome to the forums @Rob W2

When you reconstructed your C drive from scratch, were all of your documents and linked resources (images) restored to exactly the same folder structure? Same folder names, same hierarchical structure, same relative positions, same file names, etc?

If they were not, and you introduced any changes, no matter how small, even a minor name change somewhere, then the software will have trouble resolving the links to the resources again. Basically it can’t find something that isn’t where the software was told it would be.

For fonts, that’s probably just a matter of reinstalling the fonts you need. I don’t think there’s a quicker way unless you are using some kind of font manager.

[Rob W2]

Is there a facility or process to remap these locations?
My old C : is now D :  but folder structure and name is the same.

[GarryP]

I can’t remember if the applications store the absolute location or the relative location of the linked resources but, since the Resource Manager shows the absolute location of the resources, I’m going to guess that it’s the absolute location.

If I’m right then, because of this, moving your images from the C drive to D drive will have broken the links, because the drive letter is different.

When you open a document with missing resources there is a pop-up telling you about it and asking if you want to locate them. If you click the Yes button you will get a dialog where you can point to where they are now and it should, if the folder hierarchy is the same, automatically relocate all the images for that document.

If you didn’t do that then you might have to use the Resource Manager to re-locate each one manually via the Relink button.

I’ve not had to do this often so someone else might have a better suggestion.