Is there a way to re-reference Referenced Mosaic Datasets

[philippenn]

I have a bunch of referenced mosaic datasets (RMDs), and I want to copy them to another database instance. I can copy them fine from instance1 to instance2 but they are pointing back to instance1. I want them to point to instance2.

Is there a way of updating the reference? In Catalog I can see the .sde file that the reference was originally looking at, but it's readonly.

Is there a way of doing this?

TIA,


Phil

[MelanieHarlow]

Do you mean update the paths to the mosaic dataset being referenced by the Reference mosaic dataset? Regardless of the type of mosaic dataset, you can update the paths.
See
http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#//009t0000005n000000

[philippenn]

No, I don't mean the paths, I mean the actual link (reference) to the mosaic dataset itself. So if the link points to mosaic datasets in instance1, i want to be able to change the link to point to the same mosaic dataset in instance2.

[axel99]

I have the same problem with RMDs 10.0. The only way I have to update the reference is to recreate the refrenced Mosaic Dataset and the function chain in the target Geodatabase after I have copied the base Mosaic Dataset.