I recently went through this exercise a couple of times.
The first time, I transferred the workspace files to one of our Unix systems
and used the Unix text tools to batch edit all of the workspaces (run from a
Unix command line). You need a real Unix freak in the office to set this
up, but it works really well.
The second time, I had data for a couple of projects that was all organised
under a top-level directory for the project (ie arranged in subfolders) such
that I had workspaces in one folder, different data from various sources in
others. I used Ultra Edit to open the workspaces and change the absolute
paths in the workspace files to relative paths:
Eg. from d:\projects\myproject\data...
To ..\data (where the workspaces were in a directory at the same level as
the data directory in the directory tree).
Ultra-edit doesn't allow batch editing of files, but you can open files in
different Windows and retain the search and replace strings between files.
This also works pretty well for placing workspaces and data on CD-ROM (just
remember to make sure that no tables opened by the workspace are set to
editable first).
Another solution is a nice piece of shareware Michael O'Toole (4th Beach
Software, Melbourne Australia) was working on called Workspace Control which
is designed to make the task of moving workspaces much easier. I was using
a beta of the program and found it very useful, but I'm not sure where
development of the program is at. The beta Michael put out for public
testing was pretty good.
Hope this is of use.
Regards,
Andrew Waltho
Mining & Resource Technology, Brisbane
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