Relinking missing things in Folio Builder

Hi, folks
I usually work with CS6 in a desktop with Windows 7 but I have to finish my work with a MacBook due to the constraints imposed by Adobe DPS. That said, I sometimes need to work in a different computer (at the job, somewhere else...). To speed up the work and to avoid compatibility issues, I use sidecar.xml to assembly the app and opentype fonts... I keep my work at an external harddrive that I plug whenever I need (no trouble at all with it being a NTFS drive, btw, tuxera came to the rescue).
But what really nags me and what I find a real and royal pain in the neck is the need to relink articles to pages (InDesign or HTML) in Folio Builder every time I need to do something in another computer.
The question is: Is there any way or script I could use to make this relinking in a speedy and, if possible, automated way?
(Pretty please)
Gustavo (Posting from madrid)

@Charlie – this script is wonderful to relink InDesign documents with assets, but it cannot provide a way of linking folio articles to InDesign documents.
Folio articles are organized in a "afc.db" database file and are coded with the full name of the local harddisk AND the user account name (if my memory serves me right).
It is NOT advisable to edit the "afc.db" which is constantly updated, if you work on your folios.
So, if you take at one hand a Windows 7 machine and at the other hand a MacBook Pro you cannot have the "same" paths on both machines. At least I do not know a workflow where this is possible.
In the case of two Macs it should be possible to use one of the machines over the other, if you make sure that the name of the harddisk and the name of the user account is the same on both machines AND if you take the whole "dmp" folder where your folio data and the "afc.db" is stored together with all the assets (InDesign files together with all their assets) to the second machine. Of course you have to put the data in the same folder structure…
In that very special case you don't need to relink anything…
But that configuration will be a rare case.
Uwe

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