Relink book file

Hi scripters
Here I am updating book file.contents from one folder to another folder. Below is my code I used to update the book file. While I am executing this script It's processing for sometime and finally closes the Indesign application.
var new_folder = Folder.selectDialog("Please select a folder");
bb = app.books[0].bookContents;
for (i = 0; i < bb.length; i++)
chname= File(bb[i].fullName).name;
mynewfile = File(new_folder + "/" + chname);
if (mynewfile.exists) {
bb[i].replace (File (mynewfile));
The error shown below
Adobe InDesign
Adobe InDesign is shutting down. A serious error was detected. Please restart InDesign to recover work in any unsaved InDesign documents.
OK
Please advice me where I am mistaken?
thanks in advance
regards
a r u l
vpublish.net

Hallo Ebrebc,
Thanks for your reply but that is not exactly what I mean.
What I mean is if you can relink your images in several Indesign-files at the same time?
I have made a book-file of 50 separate Indesign-files in which I have to relink all images.
Now I have to open each file to relink the images, but is there a way you can do that with several Indesign-files?
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