Updating Content Type from other metadata field

Hi.
In the process of creation of metadata fields a customer use a custom metadata field called 'class' to define what type the content are. The field Content Type was leave untouchble. Now they have tons of content in the same folder inside vault cause content server uses the metadata content type to create vault subfolders. What is the best way to eliminate the field class, transporting the metadata to the correct field content type and mantain the correlation of the links to the native files and weblayout files of the content? If I just update the column content type with the data in column class I believe that willl be a mess of broken links. Can anyone suggest anything?
Thank you!

Hi there,
Thought i could not comprehend all that you want, I could get that you have problem with a meta data filed.
Instead of using "Content Type" earlier contributors used "class" and now you want to chagne the "class" field with appropriate value of "Content Type".
This can be done provided the original "class" type was used intellegently by using following steps
1) depending on various values of class(e.g. all document for which class=A) created exports using archiver, also deleted them same time.
2) Import the archiver created in step one and prove an input map for the "class" field to appropriate value as "Content Type"(content type =B)
In this way all content items with class=A would be converted into content type=B.
Hope that helps you.
regards,
sapan

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