Thank you for all your help, TOM M had the solution
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Great, i will run some tests now. thanks for your help, i will report back
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On Friday, May 25, 2018 at 10:21:52 AM UTC+2, Matt Truslove wrote:
> Good morning,
> I have a very important XML file which contains a lot of important metadata.
> Recently my old computer has become useless so i managed to backup all my
> data and export all my files.
>
> as part of the backup
It may help if you can start vim in non-compatible mode, such as with
vi -N
I suggest also turning on search highlighting:
:set hlsearch
If the path you want to replace does not have any dots, I would first search
for the text that needs to be replaced, perhaps
/\/\/\/[^.]\+\/
With
Thank you for the resources, but all i have at the moment is a linux terminal
and my work machine, so resources and software is limited
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Hi Matt,
On Fri, 25 May 2018 01:16:54 -0700 (PDT)
Matt Truslove wrote:
> Good morning,
> I have a very important XML file which contains a lot of important metadata.
> Recently my old computer has become useless so i managed to backup all my
> data and export all my files.
>
> as part of the ba
If it were me, I'd put symlinks on the system to match the old path so
that the file doesn't need editing.
I'd also review my backup AND TEST RESTORE process.
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Good morning,
I have a very important XML file which contains a lot of important metadata.
Recently my old computer has become useless so i managed to backup all my data
and export all my files.
as part of the backup i exported the metadata via an XML feature. But not
realising that the new loc
