On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 6:49 AM, Alan Bourke <[email protected]>wrote:
> This functionality is something I've never used over the years. However > I now have a customer's site with a table containing a General field and > image data has been added to it using APPEND GENERAL ... LINK. The > images were initially picked up using a mapped drive letter, e.g. > G:\somethingorother. > > The customer has now moved the images in question to an identical > directory structure on another server and/or drive, and re-mapped drive > G: to the new share, so that the apparent path to each image is > identical in terms of Windows. However these General fields seem to have > information about the original location embedded somewhere, and the link > is somehow broken. > > Is this a feature of General-type fields and OLE data? Is there any > simple way of re-linking ? > > ------------------ That sounds like a screw up. Attach the path/filename to the data itself? -- Stephen Russell Sr. Analyst Ring Container Technology Oakland TN 901.246-0159 cell --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/CAJidMYLJPbkTf7f=ksxw6rwydbjbjfp-nndrheafnhshs9d...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
