[softwarelist] Re: OPW - referencing pictures and drive path changes

In message of 8 Aug, Clive Bonsall <cbonsall@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> The ability to reference pictures in OP/OPW documents is an extremely 
> useful feature, but problems arise when the location of the picture file 
> "changes".
> 
> My OPW documents and associated picture files are kept on external USB 
> drives, which are connected to a MacBook Pro running Windows XP under 
> emulation (previously the drives were connected to a WinXP PC). For 
> reasons I don't fully understand, Windows will occasionally decide to 
> change the "letter" assigned to an external drive (F: > G:, for 
> example). When that happens, OPW can no longer find the pictures for a 
> particular document ... and if <pictures> happens to be ticked in 
> View>Options (and there is a picture on page 1 of the document) then the 
> file cannot be opened or closes immediately after opening.
> 
> Assuming you can open a file and re-save it as DDL, then you can change 
> the path to the external drive with search & replace. A slight 
> inconvenience here is that a Windows path contains single reverse 
> solidus (\) symbols, while the DDL "path" replaces these with double 
> symbols (\\), thus:
> 
> Windows:   F:\Partition\Directory\Document\Picture
> 
> DDL:       {reference "F:\\Partition\\Directory\\Document\\Picture"}
> 
> The situation is even more complex when using Windows under emulation on 
> a Mac ... because the external drive can be accessed either directly 
> within the emulator (by allowing the emulator to take control of the 
> drive) or via a shared folder on the Mac side ... according to which 
> method you choose, the path to your OPW documents/pictures will be 
> different.
> 
> Can anyone suggest ways of minimizing these problems?

I have the same problem with Referencing on an Iyonix.  I have never
found a solution, so thanks for the file renaming suggestions above.

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