Mr. Elliot,

These may all be fine tools but I thought I would point out, as I seem to 
once a year or more, that in many cases you don't really need to do 
anything at all with the workspaces if you don't want to.  You can go into 
the Directory Preferences (under Options, Preferences) and in the bottom 
pane add one or more directories (with the new drive letter) where the 
tables should be found. 

When MapInfo Professional opens the workspace, it will try to find the TAB 
file in the specified old drive letter, but when that fails, without you 
being prompted, the search path will be searched for those tables, 
recursively, in the order specified. The tables are usually opened without 
any change from you. 

In some cases, if your disk is large, this might slow things down a bit 
although NT, XP, etc., cache much directory information. If this is true, 
then after the workspace was successfully opened, save it again. The newly 
found paths (on the new drive) will be automatically written to the 
workspace. 

The only downside I know of this method is that if your data tables are 
constantly named the same but in different folders, then we will not be 
able to distinguish between them. In that case, you have to point 
specifically to the location of the correct tables by editing the 
workspaces.

Eric Blasenheim
Software Architect
MapInfo Corporation


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Subject:
MI-L Moving WOR files


I would like to move all my data, including my workspace files, to a 
second
hard drive.  Is there a utility that would enable me to rename the drive
letter in all my workspaces.  I seem to recall seeing this mentioned on 
the
list some time ago.

Regards to all,
John

John Elliot
Anzeco Pty. Limited
mineral exploration consulting services
26 Casey Circuit,
Bathurst, NSW 2795, AUSTRALIA


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