[softwarelist] Re: OPW - referencing pictures and drive path changes
- From: Tim Powys-Lybbe <tim@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:26:45 +0100
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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