Relocate fragment library
We're new to LiveCycle Designer (ES2) standalone. My coworker created a form using fragments, but the fragments are stored in her "My Documents\My Fragments" folder. We moved the fragments to a shared folder and now the PDF forms can no longer find them. Is there any way to update all the fragment references en masse or do we have to go through each form and every fragment one-by-one? Thanks. -- Ben
Sorry Ben,
I don't have a definitive answer.
The safest way would be to relink in the Fragment Subform tab:
If you were feeling brave (and tested on a copy first), you could do a find/replace within the XML Source, swapping out the old reference for the new reference:
Not for the faint hearted - good luck,
Niall
PS
You would need to see what the new fragment library looked like, then
FIND: usehref="..\..\..\..\Fragments\
REPLACE: usehref="..\..\..\..\myNewFragments\
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I am new here so I hope I'm posting this in the right place.
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Thank you for the prompt. I was going to get to it ...
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The iTunes program files will still be stored on your C: drive, to make Windows happy, and it just refers to your external hard drive to find the files so it can play them and sync them to your iPod.
When you follow the above steps, your Album Artwork should copy to the external drive as well.
Apple has this support document on the issue:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1751
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In your case I'm suggesting that you can use 2. to relocate your library files to a faster internal drive while leaving the media on the NAS (splitting the library), and that you would then use 4. to join your split library back together again before attempting to move it to a different drive.
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2 items in the same iTunes library
My iTunes library (item #1) is currently located on HD #1.
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I thought is was impossible.
Your answers confirm my fear.
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While iTunes can link to songs on any volume currently attached to your computer, separating the file library is a bad practice because iTunes only recognizes one folder as your music folder. Should the worst ever happen, any music that you do not have in your designated iTunes music folder may need to be manually added to your iTunes library again; the songs in your (designated) music folder would be restored by the simple action of setting the iTunes preference to point to the correct folder.
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At a guess you followed the process in HT1364 - iTunes for Windows: Moving your iTunes Media folder which would have moved the media folder to a new path of your choice. This process leaves the library database files back in the original location of <User's Music>\iTunes. Often people assume that all they need is now on the external drive and wipe the internal drive, or discard their old computer, before backing up the all important iTunes folder. If you have a backup of your user's profile folder from before the upgrade the iTunes library folder should be in there somewhere. Restore it to <User's Music> and your original library should pop back into existence. The external drive would need to have the same drive letter that it had previously.
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If you have an iPod or iOS device my scripts ImportDevicePlaylists and SyncStats may well let you recover ratings, play counts & playlists from the device.
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I upgraded my computer system from vista to windows 7 losing my authorized itunes in the process - I cannot sync my ipod now without losing everything on it. Is there a solution for this?
At a guess you followed the process in HT1364 - iTunes for Windows: Moving your iTunes Media folder which would have moved the media folder to a new path of your choice. This process leaves the library database files back in the original location of <User's Music>\iTunes. Often people assume that all they need is now on the external drive and wipe the internal drive, or discard their old computer, before backing up the all important iTunes folder. If you have a backup of your user's profile folder from before the upgrade the iTunes library folder should be in there somewhere. Restore it to <User's Music> and your original library should pop back into existence. The external drive would need to have the same drive letter that it had previously.
A more effective way to relocate the library is to move the entire iTunes folder to the external drive, then hold down shift when starting iTunes and keep holding until asked to choose or create a library. You would then choose the file iTunes Library.itl in the iTunes folder on the external drive. If this is the way you moved the library before then that is how you should now reconnect to it. Changing the media folder in preferences doesn't change which .itl database file is opened, nor does double-clicking on an .itl file directly.
If you no longer have the original .itl file then you will have to build a new library and import the media to it. If you need to do this I would recommend you create a new library at F:\iTunes, then move your existing media folders inside F:\iTunes\iTunes Media before importing. This will avoid the creation of duplicates and make sure the library is in the correct shape going forwards.
If you have an iPod or iOS device my scripts ImportDevicePlaylists and SyncStats may well let you recover ratings, play counts & playlists from the device.
When you've fixed up your libray you should consider getting a second external drive to backup to.
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How can i do to sharing segments library?
Hi!
I hope someone can to help me, i have some segments than i will use to create some forms, but i have a question....how can i do to sharing this segments library, because i will work with other two persons and we want to have access to the same segments, that is for reuse this segments because the forms has similar information.
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Thank´sAre you talking about fragments?
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Question about moving iTunes Media folder/library
Hello,
I'm responding to the article listed here: iTunes for Windows: Moving your iTunes Media folder - Apple Support that describes moving your iTunes media folder. I have a massive music library/playlists (over 350 gigs and growing). I'm planning to relocate my media folder to Dropbox because I have ample space there and it will allow me to run my library off of multiple computers (though not at the same time). My question is this: if I follow the steps and consolidate and relocate my library to the new Dropbox folder, will all my new uploads and downloads/purchases/imports also start automatically going to this newly specified location? I want to make sure that it would.
ThanksWell the way that Dropbox works for me (just documents and data, not iTunes) is that I have a complete copy of the files in my Dropbox folder on my computer at home, and at work, and in the cloud on Dropbox's servers. Each time I update one of the files it is uploaded to Dropbox and then downloaded to the other client machine. When using another computer I can access my files from the Dropbox web interface, or use the Dropbox app on my iPad. It sounds like you are hoping that you can have all of your files in the cloud, and only in the cloud. I don't think it works that way.
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