PDF button link path missing

Hi. I made a button in the pdf file with a link to a file I have on a network. If I copy the main file to a different location I loose the path to the attached file. How can I avoid having this problem? thanks

File links in PDF files are relative by default. You would need to either use a script with a hard-coded path, or an external tool to change the relative paths in absolute ones.

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