topic Re: broken links change of from one server to another in Python Questions

broken links change of from one server to another

jackwalker — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 21:28:16 GMT

Hi Guys ,

So here is my problem . i am working in a map technician role within my company. The company has computer drives which are shared between my location and another. Recently the other location , moved a lot of the data which was onto a shared folder onto a new drive. I think its actually another server on it different operating system going from Windows to Unix.

Unfortunately the other location did not tell us. We have recently found out and now a lot of our maps which accessed material off the shared area are now broken.

So now i m in the process of fixing the links. To start with i have been doing this by right clicking then updating the data sources but this is a very manual process. we have around 5000 links which are broken. A lot of the stuff we have is old and might need to archived , but as the links are broken , your not see what the maps are a lot of the time.

We have the Xtools extension which has some tool that will repair broken links , but it to is very manual.

i was wondering if anyone had some advice on tools or scripts , which could be used to speed up this process

Or as any experience of dealing with something like this , that would be great

Thanks Jack

Re: broken links change of from one server to another

AnthonyGiles — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 21:33:54 GMT

Jack,

have a look at this post:

Python script for mass find and replace of workspace path?‌

Re: broken links change of from one server to another

DavidHenrie — Thu, 07 Sep 2017 20:25:54 GMT

Ahh... Anthony, this might be what I am looking for. I'm going to give it a go. Thanks for your quick response. If anyone else has other options, I'd be willing to look at them also.

Re: broken links change of from one server to another

RebeccaStrauch__GISP — Thu, 07 Sep 2017 22:42:45 GMT

I have an addin that may help /blogs/myAlaskaGIS/2015/08/31/python-addin-for-data-inventory-and-broken-link-repair?sr=search&searchId=1cd7cc4f-8e8f-4cfb-829f-4c2b0f509da2&searchIndex=2‌