On Monday 03 September 2007 13:29:42 Henrich Pifko wrote: > hi there, > i have a great problem. it was already mentioned, but i didnt find answers. > i have a large document wiith many images inserted as links to local files. > suddenly the links were broken. > they had been changed from file:///C:/pathname/filename.jpg to > file:///pathname/filename.jpg and dont work anymore. > the images can be re-inserted, but I have cca hundred of them! > help, please, how to restore the complete path in all links. > i tried to save the document in another format with editable links - > it worked, but i lost the precious layout formating - this is not a > way for me. > thanks. > henrich > > ps here is another mail with similar problem - i found it in archives... > I have a document with many large images in it. > Embedding these images in the text made it very slow to load, so I > linked them to a local file instead. > After hours of getting the layout just the way I wanted it, I saved > the file and went off to do something else. When I came back a couple > hours later, the entire file was trashed and I discovered that all > the links had been changed from file:///C:/pathname/filename.jpg to > http://pathname/filename.jpg > Does anyone have a clue why?
Hello Heinrich, I'm sorry to hear that. I don't know why it happened, but, I think we can try to 'cure' it temporarily by using the Search and Replace feature of OOo. You can search http:// and replace it with file:///C:/ -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | Linux tutorial http://linux2.arinet.org 21:07:05 up 38 min, 2.6.20-16-generic GNU/Linux Let's use OpenOffice. http://www.openoffice.org
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