Delete Broken Links

I would like to know how to delete everything in the broken
links folder. I have a project that has migrated from a Word import
thru a few editors, structure reorganizations, and other nefarious
activities and it is time to clean up the resulting mess. I can't
find a way to just delete the broken links - they no longer
reference anything in the project.
I can't find a procedure to remove or resolve them - the
broken links are irrelevant. Is there a utility that can just
delete the broken links from the project or edit a file outside of
the project?

quote:
Originally posted by:
lmarden
I had to delete a lot of topics from a projecct - was
creating a template from a fully evolved project to use for new
ones. Long story short, even though I OK'd the message that asked
if I wanted to remove all links in other topics from these deleted
topics, there were more than a hundred broken links sitting there
when I was done. Most of them - about 80 - had No References in the
Broken Link repair window. They stuck there even after exiting and
re-entering the project.
I renamed and rebuilt the .cpd file, came back in, and all
those unreferenced links were gone.
Thanks very much for your quick response! That did the trick!
I made a backup of the *.cpd file, deleted the original,
re-opened RoboHTML and my project, then recompiled it. The few
broken references that I had fixed in the Index keywords were no
longer listed in the Broken Links folder! Yay! Now I just need to
fix the rest of them.
cheers!
ChristyG

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Hi everyone
I wonder if anyone can offer me some advice to rectify the problems I'm experiencing in my itunes?
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Move the following files and folders from /Volumes/Backup/iTunes up to /Volumes/Backup/
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iTunes Library.itl
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sentinel (hidden)
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