Bulk change of UNC Pathnames HOWTO ?

[JMM]

Hi All,
My first post to to this community, I was hoping that someone out there
may have experienced the same problem that faces me now and can offer some
suggestions as to how I get around it.
"The Problem"- I am in the process of a server migration from one of our old
data servers to a brand spanking new one and one of our departments has
managed to develop a full Document Management System" Using the office suite
this consists of Excel,Word,Acrobat documents linked and referenced via full
UNC name and path.
What I am trying to do is basically a find and replace in these office
documents so that the legacy references to the old server can be replaced.
Unfortunally the file servers are running NetWare so the option of using DFS
and the Win2k3 Migration toolkit is in the bin.

oh and to make things even more interesting these documents are in a complex
nested directory structure.

Thanks for any suggestions / Assistance

Jay

 

[Dawn Crosier, Word MVP]

Have you read this? http://www.mousetrax.com/convert.html

I think it may help solve part of your problem. Hope it helps.

--
Dawn Crosier
Microsoft MVP
"Education Lasts a Lifetime"
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Hi All,
My first post to to this community, I was hoping that someone out there
may have experienced the same problem that faces me now and can offer some
suggestions as to how I get around it.
"The Problem"- I am in the process of a server migration from one of our old
data servers to a brand spanking new one and one of our departments has
managed to develop a full Document Management System" Using the office suite
this consists of Excel,Word,Acrobat documents linked and referenced via full
UNC name and path.
What I am trying to do is basically a find and replace in these office
documents so that the legacy references to the old server can be replaced.
Unfortunally the file servers are running NetWare so the option of using DFS
and the Win2k3 Migration toolkit is in the bin.

oh and to make things even more interesting these documents are in a complex
nested directory structure.

Thanks for any suggestions / Assistance

Jay

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