Help!
December 1, 2008 6:56 AM Subscribe
Need a method to search for, and possible change, long file paths inside documents.
My company is ready to take the final step to migrate from Novell to Windows and DFS for our file servers. We have all of the Novell-related stuff completed but are having an issue with some of the documents and spreadsheets we're migrating to the new server.
We have quite a few users that have documents and spreadsheets containing hyperlinks to other documents and spreadsheets on the network. However, instead of linking to S:\document.doc, users have been linking to \\server\share\document.doc. The drive mappings are going to stay the same but the server names will be different so those links will be broken post migration. We have purchased a product that "fixes" these links but it is failing when the path is longer than 255 characters. The company has not been able to correct this yet and our entire migration is on hold because of this one small issue. I realize this is technically the problem of the company whose product we purchased but I'm held responsible for completing this migration, not them.
So, does anyone know of a method to search our documents for long file paths in hyperlinks so we can possible just correct those by hand? Or, if anyone has a method or product they've successfully used in this scenario, please share it here.
My company is ready to take the final step to migrate from Novell to Windows and DFS for our file servers. We have all of the Novell-related stuff completed but are having an issue with some of the documents and spreadsheets we're migrating to the new server.
We have quite a few users that have documents and spreadsheets containing hyperlinks to other documents and spreadsheets on the network. However, instead of linking to S:\document.doc, users have been linking to \\server\share\document.doc. The drive mappings are going to stay the same but the server names will be different so those links will be broken post migration. We have purchased a product that "fixes" these links but it is failing when the path is longer than 255 characters. The company has not been able to correct this yet and our entire migration is on hold because of this one small issue. I realize this is technically the problem of the company whose product we purchased but I'm held responsible for completing this migration, not them.
So, does anyone know of a method to search our documents for long file paths in hyperlinks so we can possible just correct those by hand? Or, if anyone has a method or product they've successfully used in this scenario, please share it here.
You may want to take a look at PowerGrep. I am relatively confident it can locate what you are looking for and handles .doc files natively. Are all the spreadsheets in Excel?
posted by sophist at 8:32 AM on December 1, 2008
posted by sophist at 8:32 AM on December 1, 2008
Response by poster: mandal: Thanks, I'll check it out.
sophist: Yes, all documents are MS Office.
posted by bda1972 at 8:47 AM on December 1, 2008
sophist: Yes, all documents are MS Office.
posted by bda1972 at 8:47 AM on December 1, 2008
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posted by mandal at 7:02 AM on December 1, 2008