Indesign Problem CS2

Hallo,
ich habe ein Problem mit Adobe InDesign.
Folgendes Szenario. Wir hatte auf einen File Server (Windows Server 2003) ein Share. Dort abgelegt waren Adobe InDesign Dateien. Die Kollegen hatten in Ihrem Arbeitsplatz (Windows XP) ein Share gemappt um auf diese Dateien zuzugreifen. Nun ist uns der Server abgeraucht, konnten das Raid wiederherstellen und haben die Daten auf einen anderen Server ausgelagert. Die Daten wurden erneut Freigegeben und wie vorher bei den Kollegen im Arbeitsplatz eingemappt. Nun ist das Problem das der Aufruf der Daten ewig dauert. Zudem kommt noch das die Verknüpfungen alle auf den alten Pfad vom defekten Server zeigen. Liegt wohl daran das es so lange dauert. Wie kann ich den Aufruf wieder beschleunigen und alle Verknüpfungen wiederherstellen??
Händisch wäre es ja ein riesen Aufwand, da teilweise 100 Verknüpfungen in einer Datei stecken.
Wünsche allen ein Frohes Fest und würde mich um eine Antwort freuen...
Chris

I ran your post through Babel Fish to translate, and I hope your English is better than my German.
It appears that you are having trouble with missing links when re-opening files that were moved from one server to another, I think because either the server failed or you decided to outsource.
It doesn't really matter why the files were moved. As you now know, InDesign uses absolute link paths for external data, and this is not something you can change. There is a partial remedy in the fact that InDesign will search the path and sub-directories where the document file is located and find any links there(which is how packaging and delivery to a service provider is possible), but if the links are in another branch of the directory tree the system will fail.
If all of the links for any file are in a single location, move the document into that location temporarily as well, open, update the links, then save and relocate where it belongs. If the links are scattered, then I'm afraid you have a big job ahead of you.
As far as I know, there is no way to automate the process.
Peter

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