Re: How to Undo Multi-File Find and Replace

2017-02-27 Thread Bill Kochman
Thank you for your response David. However, as I noted yesterday — my local time — I already took care of the problem by starting all over. It took me about an hour to get things right, and even better than before. Kind regards, Bill K. > On Feb 27, 2017, at 5:26 PM, David Wagner

Re: How to Undo Multi-File Find and Replace

2017-02-26 Thread Bill Kochman
Hello folks, I apologize for the delay in getting back to you, but I have been very sick and had to go to bed. At any rate, I just bit the bullet and redid everything from scratch using backup copies of the original 1256 files. To provide more details, the link that I broke in each of those

Re: How to Undo Multi-File Find and Replace

2017-02-26 Thread Bruce Linde
got backups? On Sunday, February 26, 2017 at 2:09:35 PM UTC-8, Tom Robinson wrote: > > That was my thought, but looks like OP managed to change text which varied > for each link, to a fixed string in all the files :[ > > > > On 2017-02-27, at 10:39, Jean-Christophe Helary < >

Re: How to Undo Multi-File Find and Replace

2017-02-26 Thread Tom Robinson
That was my thought, but looks like OP managed to change text which varied for each link, to a fixed string in all the files :[ > On 2017-02-27, at 10:39, Jean-Christophe Helary > wrote: > > You can use a regex to fix the broken links :) There's plenty of

Re: How to Undo Multi-File Find and Replace

2017-02-26 Thread Jean-Christophe Helary
> So go ahead and tell me that I just have to go back and start all over again > with a fresh copy of the files, because there is no way to undo a multi-file > find and replace. You can use a regex to fix the broken links :) There's plenty of hope. Now what it the pattern of those broken links

How to Undo Multi-File Find and Replace

2017-02-26 Thread Bill Kochman
I kind of suspect what I am going to be told, but let me ask anyway with a glimmer of hope. I have just spent a few hours cleaning up the HTML code in about 1256 docs in one of my virtual host’s directories. I just did a final multi-file find and replace, and then realized when I got a broken